great diggs
great diggs
Rip-Off Press (1969-1971)
The three issues of Great Diggs provide wry commentary and satire about the hot political and social issues from the mid-70s through the ’80s. Funny stuff from Harry Driggs, but very topical.
Throughout the 1970s, Driggs’ strips and political cartoons were distributed to underground and student publications via the Rip Off Press Syndicate.[5] Two volumes of his political cartoons were published by Rip Off Press in 1977 and 1979, under the title Great Diggs.
In the 1970s and ’80s, Driggs contributed comix stories to such anthologies as Rip Off Comix and Anarchy Comics, as well as to a number of Leonard Rifas’ projects, including Itchy Planet, Corporate Crime, and Energy Comics. In 1991, Rip Off Press published Greatest Diggs of All Time, collecting material from his post-1978 work.
In the 1980s, Driggs joined the newly formed Green Party, for which he designed posters, newsletters, and other materials, and did design work for local non-profits. In the late 1980s, he designed the leafy graphic logo for the San Francisco Greens, which later became the Green Party of California.[1]
In the latter part of his career, Driggs operated “as a fine art painter and sculptor, specializing in portraits, nudes, and figurative ceramics.”
