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Rip Off Press

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Rip Off Press, Inc. is a mail order retailer and distributor, better known as the former publisher of "adult-themed" series like The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Rip Off Comix, as well as many other seminal publications from the underground comix era. [1]

60 relations: Alternative comics, Auburn, California, Austin, Texas, Band (rock and pop), Carol Lay, Cartoon, Chuck Austen, Comics, Company & Sons, Cooperative, Corporation, Dave Sheridan (cartoonist), Demi the Demoness, Direct market, Discordianism, Distribution (marketing), Don Donahue, Don Markstein's Toonopedia, Erotic comics, Fat Freddy's Cat, Frank Stack, Fred Schrier, Fritz the Cat, Gary Arlington, Gilbert Shelton, God Nose, Good Girls (comics), Guy Colwell, Hayes Valley, San Francisco, Jaxon, Jay Kinney, Kerry Wendell Thornley, Larry Gonick, Last Gasp, Mail order, Malaclypse the Younger, Marvel Comics, Matt Howarth, Not Quite Dead, Offset printing, Politics, Principia Discordia, Print Mint, Printing press, Psychedelic rock, Publishing, Recreational drug use, Rip Off Comix, Robert Crumb, San Francisco, ..., Savage Henry (comics), Steve Crompton, The Cartoon History of the Universe, The Comics Journal, The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, The Rip Off Review of Western Culture, Those Annoying Post Bros, Underground comix, Wonder Wart-Hog, 1969 in comics. Expand index (10 more) »

Alternative comics

Alternative comics cover a range of American comics that have appeared since the 1980s, following the underground comix movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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Auburn, California

Auburn is a city in and the county seat of Placer County, California.

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Austin, Texas

Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties.

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Band (rock and pop)

A rock band or pop band is a small musical ensemble which performs rock music, pop music or a related genre.

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Carol Lay

Carol Lay (born 1952) is an American alternative cartoonist best known for her weekly comic strip, Story Minute (later to evolve into the strip Way Lay), which ran for almost 20 years in such US papers as the LA Weekly, the NY Press, and on Salon.

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Cartoon

A cartoon is a type of illustration, possibly animated, typically in a non-realistic or semi-realistic style.

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Chuck Austen

Chuck Austen (born Chuck Beckum) is an American comic book writer and artist, TV writer and animator.

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Comics

a medium used to express ideas by images, often combined with text or other visual information.

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Company & Sons

Company & Sons was an early underground comix publisher based in San Francisco, run by John Bagley.

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Cooperative

A cooperative (also known as co-operative, co-op, or coop) is "an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically-controlled enterprise".

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Corporation

A corporation is a company or group of people or an organisation authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law.

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Dave Sheridan (cartoonist)

Dave Sheridan (June 7, 1943 – March 28, 1982) was an American cartoonist and underground comix artist.

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Demi the Demoness

Demi the Demoness is a fictional, humorous, erotic comics character whose fantasy adventures have been published since 1992.

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Direct market

The direct market is the dominant distribution and retail network for American comic books.

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Discordianism

Discordianism is a paradigm based upon the book Principia Discordia, written by Greg Hill with Kerry Wendell Thornley in 1963, the two working under the pseudonyms Malaclypse the Younger and Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst.

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Distribution (marketing)

Distribution (or place) is one of the four elements of the marketing mix.

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Don Donahue

Donald Richard Donahue (May 18, 1942 – October 27, 2010)Levin, Bob.

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Don Markstein's Toonopedia

Don Markstein's Toonopedia (subtitled A Vast Repository of Toonological Knowledge) is a web encyclopedia of print cartoons, comic strips and animation, initiated February 13, 2001.

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Erotic comics

Erotic comics are adult comics which focus substantially on nudity and sexual activity, either for their own sake or as a major story element.

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Fat Freddy's Cat

Fat Freddy's Cat is a fictional orange tomcat nominally belonging to Fat Freddy Freekowtski, one of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, a trio featured in Gilbert Shelton's underground comix.

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Frank Stack

Frank Huntington Stack (born 1937 in Houston, Texas) is an American underground cartoonist and fine artist.

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Fred Schrier

Fred Schrier (born 1945 in Ohio) is an artist, writer, and animator, best known as partner to the underground comic book artist Dave Sheridan.

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Fritz the Cat

Fritz the Cat was a comic strip created by Robert Crumb.

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Gary Arlington

Gary Edson Arlington (October 7, 1938 – January 16, 2014) was an American retailer, artist, editor, and publisher, who became a key figure in the underground comix movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

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Gilbert Shelton

Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940), Lambiek Comiclopedia.

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God Nose

God Nose is a 42-page American comic book produced in 1964 by Jack "Jaxon" Jackson and is considered one of the first underground comix.

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Good Girls (comics)

Good Girls is a 1987–1991 six-issue comic book limited series.

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Guy Colwell

Guy Colwell (born March 28, 1945, in Oakland, California) is an American painter and occasional underground cartoonist.

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Hayes Valley, San Francisco

Hayes Valley is an affluent neighborhood in the Western Addition district of San Francisco, California.

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Jaxon

Jack Edward Jackson (May 15, 1941 – June 8, 2006), better known by his pen name Jaxon, was an American cartoonist, illustrator, historian, and writer.

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Jay Kinney

Jay Kinney (born 1950) is an American author, editor, and former underground cartoonist.

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Kerry Wendell Thornley

Kerry Wendell Thornley (April 17, 1938 – November 28, 1998) is known as the co-founder (along with childhood friend Greg Hill) of Discordianism, in which context he is usually known as Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst or simply Lord Omar.

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Larry Gonick

Larry Gonick (born 1946) is a cartoonist best known for The Cartoon History of the Universe, a history of the world in comic book form, which he published in installments from 1977 to 2009.

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Last Gasp

Last Gasp is a San Francisco-based book publisher with a lowbrow art and counterculture focus.

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Mail order

Mail order is the buying of goods or services by mail delivery.

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Malaclypse the Younger

Gregory Hill (21 May 1941 – 20 July 2000), better known by the pen name Malaclypse the Younger, was one of the two writers of the Principia Discordia, along with Kerry Wendell Thornley (a.k.a. Lord Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst).

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Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics is the common name and primary imprint of Marvel Worldwide Inc., formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, a publisher of American comic books and related media.

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Matt Howarth

Matt Howarth is an American comic book writer/artist known for such series as Those Annoying Post Bros, Savage Henry, Star Crossed, and Bugtown.

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Not Quite Dead

Not Quite Dead is an underground comic book series by Gilbert Shelton and the French cartoonist Pic, published in France by the magazine Flag, in the U.S. by Rip Off Press, and in the U.K. by Knockabout Comics.

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Offset printing

Offset printing is a commonly used printing technique in which the inked image is transferred (or "offset") from a plate to a rubber blanket, then to the printing surface.

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Politics

Politics (from Politiká, meaning "affairs of the cities") is the process of making decisions that apply to members of a group.

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Principia Discordia

The Principia Discordia is a Discordian religious text written by Greg Hill (Malaclypse the Younger) with Kerry Wendell Thornley (Lord Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst).

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Print Mint

The Print Mint, Inc. was a major publisher and distributor of underground comix based in the San Francisco Bay Area during the genre's late 1960s-early 1970s heyday.

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Printing press

A printing press is a device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink.

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Psychedelic rock

Psychedelic rock is a diverse style of rock music inspired, influenced, or representative of psychedelic culture, which is centred around perception-altering hallucinogenic drugs.

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Publishing

Publishing is the dissemination of literature, music, or information—the activity of making information available to the general public.

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Recreational drug use

Recreational drug use is the use of a psychoactive drug to induce an altered state of consciousness for pleasure, by modifying the perceptions, feelings, and emotions of the user.

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Rip Off Comix

Rip Off Comix was a underground comix anthology published between 1977 and 1991 by Rip Off Press.

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Robert Crumb

Robert Dennis Crumb (born August 30, 1943) is an American cartoonist and musician who often signs his work R. Crumb.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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Savage Henry (comics)

Savage Henry is the title of a comic book series written and illustrated by Matt Howarth.

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Steve Crompton

Steven S. Crompton is a Canadian-born artist, author and designer who has worked in the role-playing and comic genres since 1981.

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The Cartoon History of the Universe

The Cartoon History of the Universe is a book series about the history of the world.

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The Comics Journal

The Comics Journal, often abbreviated TCJ, is an American magazine of news and criticism pertaining to comic books, comic strips and graphic novels.

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The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers

The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers is an underground comic about a fictional trio of stoner characters, created by the American artist Gilbert Shelton.

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The Rip Off Review of Western Culture

The Rip Off Review of Western Culture was an underground comics magazine published by Rip Off Press and produced out of San Francisco, California.

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Those Annoying Post Bros

Those Annoying Post Bros. is an independent comic mostly by Matt Howarth about two fun-loving bad boys, Ron Post and Russ Post, from the fictional Bugtown.

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Underground comix

Underground comix are small press or self-published comic books which are often socially relevant or satirical in nature.

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Wonder Wart-Hog

Wonder Wart-Hog (the "Hog of Steel") is an underground comic book character, a parody of Superman, created by Gilbert Shelton and Tony Bell.

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1969 in comics

This is a list of comics-related events in 1969.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rip_Off_Press

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