#06 Radical Campus Freakout
#06 Radical Campus Freakout
Mature content. 1969 comic tabloid supplement to the East Village Other newspaper. Cover art by Gilbert Shelton. Features radical cartoons by artists such as Robert Crum, Vaughn Bode, Bhob Stewart, Jay Lynch, M. Kaluta, Kim Deitch, Willy Menedez, Ralph Reese, Roger Brand, Willy Murphy, Joe Schenkman, S. Clay Wilson, and more. Cover price $0.35.
But that doesn’t make Gothic Blimp Works any less of an achievement from an historical or an artistic perspective. Hidden within its fragile newsprint sheets is a gold mine of early underground work, leaping off the gigantic pages with energy and spirit. The large format of the tabloid adds visual excitement to any study of its content, making one feel like they are viewing an art gallery display instead of flipping through pages in a comic book.