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1968 In Comics
Notable events of 1968 in comics. Publications and events January * January 6: The first issue of the Dutch children's magazine '' Bobo'' is published, which introduces the title comic ''Bobo the Rabbit'', drawn by Sergio Cavina. * January 11: The first episode of Marcel Gotlib's ''Rubrique-à-Brac'' is printed in ''Pilote''. * January 20: Lo Hartog van Banda and Dick Matena' ''De Argonautjes'' debuts in '' Pep''. It will run until 1973. * '' Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane'' #80, Lois Lane's fashions were updated to a then-more contemporary look February * February 10: The British comics magazines '' Fantastic'' and '' Terrific'' merge into '' Smash!''. * February 10: In ''Tintin'', the first chapter of the ''Ric Hochet'' story '' Alias Ric Hochet'', by André-Paul Duchâteau and Tibet is printed. * February 15: In ''Pilote'', the first chapter of ''Asterix at the Olympic Games'' by Goscinny and Uderzo is serialized. * '' Tales of the Unexpected'', with issue #105, ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobo (magazine)
''Bobo'' is a monthly Dutch children's magazine published by Blink Publishers. Consisting of comics and stories, it is named after the protagonist Bobo, a nine year old blue anthropomorphic rabbit. The magazine has run since 1968 and was initially translated from the English-language Bobo Bunny magazine, published from 1969 to 1973. Each issue is devoted to one subject. The purpose of the magazine is to educate four- and five-year-olds in a playful way, and it is therefore mainly distributed through the first two years of primary school. Since 2010, Bobo has developed into a cross-media brand. Bobo has its own apps, an educational television series made by Studio 100 (started in 2011), an online training program to be used on digital schoolboards and smartboards in the classroom, and a complete merchandise line. Indonesian version The Indonesian franchise of ''Bobo'' was first published on 14 April 1973. Unlike the Dutch version, the Indonesian version is aimed at children a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asterix At The Olympic Games
''Asterix at the Olympic Games'' is the 12th comic book album in the Asterix series. Serialized in Pilote issues 434–455 in 1968 (to coincide with the Mexico City Olympics), it was translated into English in 1972 (to coincide with the Munich Olympics). The story satirizes performance-enhancing drug usage in sports. Plot At the Roman camp of Aquarium near the Gauls' village, Gluteus Maximus, an athletic Roman legionary, is chosen as one of Rome's representatives for the upcoming Olympic Games in Greece. Gaius Veriambitius, his centurion, hopes to share in the glory of Olympic victory. While training in the forest, Gluteus Maximus encounters Asterix and Obelix, who unintentionally outdo him at running, then javelin and boxing, thanks to the power of the magic potion. Demoralised, he consigns himself to sweeping the Roman camp instead of training. When Veriambitius asks Vitalstatistix that Gluteus Maximus be left alone, Vitalstatistix decides the Gauls should enter the Ol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boner's Ark
''Boner's Ark'' is an American comic strip created by Mort Walker, also the creator of ''Beetle Bailey''. Walker debuted the strip under the pseudonym "Addison" on March 11, 1968. The title is a reference to Noah's Ark of Abrahamic religions. Designed and written by Mort Walker, ''Boner's Ark'' first appeared on March 11, 1968. The series ran until May 27, 2000, with the final strip depicting the Ark reaching dry land. The series also ran in Norway and Sweden under the name ''Arken'', in Finland as ''Masan arkki'', in Denmark as ''Olsen's Ark'' and in Italy as ''L'arca di Gian Noè'' (John Noah's Ark). In the Netherlands it ran under the name ''De Ark van Zoo'' (Zoo's Ark). Characters and story ''Boner's Ark'' depicted a menagerie of animals trapped on a boat (the "Ark") and constantly in search of land. Helmed by the bumbling Captain Boner, the Ark is small on the outside and abnormally large within. In addition to sleeping quarters for all the animals, it also features a cine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mort Walker
Addison Morton Walker (September 3, 1923 – January 27, 2018) was an American comic strip writer, best known for creating the newspaper comic strips ''Beetle Bailey'' in 1950 and ''Hi and Lois'' in 1954. He signed Addison to some of his strips. Early life Walker was born in El Dorado, Kansas, as the third of four children in the family. His siblings were Peggy W. Harman (1915–2012), Robin Ellis Walker (1918–2013) and Marilou W. White (1927–2021). After a couple of years, his family moved to Amarillo, Texas, and later to Kansas City, Missouri, in late 1927, where his father, Robin Adair Walker (d. 1950), was an architect, while his mother, Carolyn Richards Walker (d. 1970), worked as a newspaper staff illustrator. He was of Scottish, Irish, and English descent. One of his ancestors was a doctor aboard the ''Mayflower''. During his elementary school years, he drew for a student newspaper. He attended Northeast High School (Missouri), Northeast High School, where he was a ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keep On Truckin' (comics)
''Keep On Truckin'' is a one-page cartoon by Robert Crumb, published in the first issue of ''Zap Comix'' in 1968. A visual burlesque of the lyrics of the Blind Boy Fuller song "Truckin' My Blues Away", it consists of an assortment of men, drawn in Crumb's distinctive style, strutting across various landscapes. The cartoon's images were imitated and much displayed during the hippie era. Copyright and licensing issues The image has been imitated often without permission, appearing on T-shirts, posters, belt buckles, mudflaps, and other items. During the early 1970s, Crumb's lawyer started threatening lawsuits against anyone using the image without permission. Crumb and A.A. Sales, a producer of unlicensed ''Keep On Truckin'' merchandise, reached a settlement of $750 for the past usage, but A.A. Sales continued to sell unlicensed products after the settlement without paying additional fees. In 1973, Crumb's case was accepted by United States District Court for the Northern Distri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Underground Comix
Underground comix are small press or self-published comic books that are often socially relevant or satirical in nature. They differ from mainstream comics in depicting content forbidden to mainstream publications by the Comics Code Authority, including explicit drug use, sexuality, and violence. They were most popular in the United States in the late 1960s and 1970s, and in the United Kingdom in the 1960s and 1970s. Robert Crumb, Gilbert Shelton, Barbara "Willy" Mendes, Trina Robbins and numerous other cartoonists created underground titles that were popular with readers within the counterculture of the 1960s, counterculture scene. Punk subculture, Punk had its own comic artists like Gary Panter. Long after their heyday, underground comix gained prominence with films and television shows influenced by the movement and with mainstream comic books, but their legacy is most obvious with alternative comics. History United States The United States underground comics scene emerged i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apex Novelties
The apex is the highest point of something. The word may also refer to: Arts and media Fictional entities * Apex (comics), a teenaged super villainess in the Marvel Universe * Ape-X, a super-intelligent ape in the Squadron Supreme universe *Apex, a genetically engineered human population in the TV series ''The Crossing'' * APEX Medical Hospital, a fictional hospital in the Filipino TV series '' Abot-Kamay na Pangarap'' Music * ''Apex'' (album), by Canadian heavy metal band Unleash the Archers * Apex (band), a Polish heavy metal band * Apex (musician) (1981–2017), British drum and bass music producer and DJ * The Apex Theory, the former name of the alternative rock band Mt. Helium *Lord Apex, a rapper from West London, UK Video games * Apex (tournament), a fighting game tournament focusing on ''Super Smash Bros.'' * '' Racing Evoluzione'', also known as ''Apex'', a 2003 video game for the Xbox * Overwatch Apex, a South Korean ''Overwatch'' tournament series * ''Apex Leg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Donahue
Donald Richard Donahue (May 18, 1942 – October 27, 2010)Levin, Bob"Don Donahue 1942-2010: As Far as Hello,"''The Comics Journal'' website (Nov. 2, 2010). was a comic book publisher, operating under the name Apex Novelties, one of the instigators of the underground comix movement in the 1960s. Donahue published numerous influential comics from that movement, including the first run of ''Zap Comix'' and a number of other highly regarded comics by Robert Crumb, such as ''Your Hytone Comics'' (1971) and ''Black and White Comics'' (1973). Apex Novelties published the bulk of its comix from 1968 to 1974. Besides Crumb, other creators associated with Apex Novelties include S. Clay Wilson, Jay Lynch, Victor Moscoso, Art Spiegelman, Rory Hayes, Spain Rodriguez, Rick Griffin, Michael McMillan, Kim Deitch, Shary Flenniken, Justin Green, and Gilbert Shelton. Donahue co-edited ''The Apex Treasury of Underground Comics'', one of the first book collections to highlight the undergrou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Plymell
Charles Plymell (born April 26, 1935, in Holcomb, Kansas) is a poet, novelist, and small press publisher. Plymell has been published widely, collaborated with, and published many poets, writers, and artists, including principals of the Beat Generation. He has published, printed, and designed many underground magazines and books with his wife Pamela Beach, a namesake in avant-garde publishing. He published former prisoner Ray Bremser and Herbert Huncke, whom he identified with from the hipster 1950s. He was influential in the underground comix scene, first printing ''Zap Comix'' artists such as Robert Crumb and S. Clay Wilson, whom he first published in Lawrence, Kansas. Plymell received a citation for being a distinguished poet by Governor Joan Finney of Kansas and was cited in the 1976 ''World Book Encyclopedia'' as a most promising poet. Biography Early life Charley Douglass Plymell was born in Finney County, Kansas during the worst dust storms of that time. He was born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Crumb
Robert Dennis Crumb (; born August 30, 1943) is an American artist who often signs his work R. Crumb. His work displays a nostalgia for American folk culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and satire of contemporary American culture. Crumb contributed to many of the seminal works of the underground comix movement in the 1960s, including being a founder of the first successful underground comix publication, ''Zap Comix'', contributing to all 16 issues. He was additionally contributing to the '' East Village Other'' and many other publications, including a variety of one-off and anthology comics. During this time, inspired by psychedelics and cartoons from the 1920s and 1930s, he introduced a wide variety of characters that became extremely popular, including countercultural icons Fritz the Cat and Mr. Natural, and the images from his '' Keep On Truckin''' strip. Sexual themes abounded in all these projects, often shading into scatological and pornographic com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zap Comix
''Zap Comix'' is an underground comix series which was originally part of the Counterculture of the 1960s, counterculture of the late 1960s. While a few small-circulation self-published satirical comic books had been printed prior to this, ''Zap'' became the model for the "underground comics, comix" movement that snowballed after its release. The title itself published 17 issues over a period of 46 years. Premiering in early 1968 as a showcase for the work of Robert Crumb, ''Zap'' was unlike any comic book that had been seen before. While working on ''Zap'' #1, Crumb saw a Chet Helms#Family Dog Productions, Family Dog poster drawn by Rick Griffin which resembled a psychedelic art, psychedelic version of a Sunday comics, Sunday funnies page. Its surreal, other-worldly imagery inspired him to think about comics in a new way, as seen in the art style of ''Zap'' #1's ''Abstract Expressionist Ultra Super Modernistic Comics''. When Crumb started planning the next issue, he reached out t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Unexpected (1968 Comic Book)
''The Unexpected'' is a fantasy comics, fantasy-horror comics, horror comics anthology series, a continuation of ''Tales of the Unexpected (comics), Tales of the Unexpected'', published by DC Comics. ''The Unexpected'' ran 118 issues, from #105 (February–March 1968) to #222 (May 1982). As a result of the so-called DC Implosion of late 1978, beginning in 1979 ''The Unexpected'' absorbed the other DC horror titles ''House of Secrets (DC Comics), House of Secrets'', ''The Witching Hour (DC Comics), The Witching Hour'', and ''Madame Xanadu, Doorway to Nightmare'' into its pages. Horror hosts featured in ''The Unexpected'' included The Mad Mod Witch, Judge Gallows, Cain and Abel (comics), Abel, and the Witches Three. This title is not to be confused with ''The Unexpected (2018 comic book), The Unexpected'' published by DC Comics in 2018. Publication history Unlike the predecessor series, ''The Unexpected'' was a fantasy anthology at first, then turned into a weird/horror anthology ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
