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tits 05 beach
Last Gasp July 1979
A feminist answer to Zap, Tits & Clits quickly became an anthology showcase for other women cartoonists, featuring the work of Mary Fleener, Roberta Gregory, Krystine Kryttre, Lee Marrs, Carel Moiseiwitsch, Trina Robbins, Dori Seda, among others. Like other underground comix, Tits & Clits leaned into being lewd in order to satirize women’s experiences with so-called sexual liberation. Featuring stories about birth control, abortion, menstruation, masturbation, and more, Tits & Clits featured intimate politics which occasionally clashed with contemporaneous feminist concepts about sex and sexuality. As Chevli put it: their work had something to offend everyone. (In 1973, conservative legal authorities in Orange County deemed their work pornographic and even threatened the two editors with arrest on obscenity charges.)
Cover by Joyce Farmer • “Ex Libris” by Joyce Farmer • Golden Oldie by Miriam Flambe • The Awakening by Ruth Lynn • Bosomic Woman meets the Hunk by Dot Bucher • Slice of Life by Joyce Farmer • Teenage by Chris Powers • Getting Yours by Rocky Trout • Sisters of Barrow and Brother Porcellius written by Karen Feinberg, art by Joyce Farmer • The String Gatherer by Terry Richards • The Pursuit of Knowledge by Ruth Lynn • Back Cover: The String Gatherer by Terry Richards