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Rip Off Press

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Rip Off Press Inc. is a comic book 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]

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  1. 74 relations: Alternative comics, Alternative newspaper, Auburn, California, Austin, Texas, Band (rock and pop), Bill Griffith, Carol Lay, Chet Helms, Chuck Austen, Comic book, Comic strip syndication, Comics, Comics anthology, Company & Sons, Cooperative, Dave Sheridan (cartoonist), David Anthony Kraft, 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, Harry Driggs, Hayes Valley, San Francisco, Jaxon (cartoonist), Jay Kinney, Joel Beck, Kerry Wendell Thornley, King Features Syndicate, Larry Gonick, Last Gasp (publisher), Mail order, Malaclypse the Younger, Marvel Comics, Matt Howarth, Offset printing, Political cartoon, Politics, Principia Discordia, ... Expand index (24 more) »

  2. Publishing companies established in 1969

Alternative comics

Alternative comics or independent 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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Alternative newspaper

An alternative newspaper is a type of newspaper that eschews comprehensive coverage of general news in favor of stylized reporting, opinionated reviews and columns, investigations into edgy topics and magazine-style feature stories highlighting local people and culture.

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Auburn, California

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

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Austin, Texas

Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat and most populous city 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 that performs rock music, pop music, or a related genre.

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Bill Griffith

William Henry Jackson Griffith (born January 20, 1944) is an American cartoonist who signs his work Bill Griffith and Griffy.

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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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Chet Helms

Chester Leo "Chet" Helms (August 2, 1942 – June 25, 2005), often called the father of San Francisco's 1967 "Summer of Love," was a music promoter and a counterculture figure in San Francisco during its hippie period in the mid- to-late 1960s.

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Chuck Austen

Chuck Austen (born Chuck Beckum).

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Comic book

A comic book, also called comicbook, comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes.

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Comic strip syndication

A comic strip syndicate functions as an agent for cartoonists and comic strip creators, placing the cartoons and strips in as many newspapers as possible on behalf of the artist.

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Comics

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

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Comics anthology

A comics anthology collects works in the medium of comics, typically from multiple series, and compiles them into an anthology or magazine.

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Company & Sons

Company & Sons was an early underground comix publisher based in San Francisco, ran by John Bagley. Rip Off Press and Company & Sons are Companies based in San Francisco and underground comix.

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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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Dave Sheridan (cartoonist)

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

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David Anthony Kraft

David Anthony Kraft (May 31, 1952 – May 19, 2021) was an American comic book writer, publisher, and critic.

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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. Rip Off Press and Demi the Demoness are underground comix.

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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 belief system based around Eris, the Greek goddess of strife and discord, and variously defined as a religion, new religious movement, virtual religion, or act of social commentary; though prior to 2005, some sources categorized it as a parody religion.

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Distribution (marketing)

Distribution is the process of making a product or service available for the consumer or business user who needs it, and a distributor is a business involved in the distribution stage of the value chain.

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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 an online 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 Tabby cat, 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 October 31, 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 is a comic strip created by Robert Crumb. Rip Off Press and Fritz the Cat are underground comix.

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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) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement.

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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. Rip Off Press and God Nose are 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) is an American painter and occasional underground cartoonist.

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Harry Driggs

Harry Driggs (November 3, 1935 — July 14, 2007) was an American artist, graphic designer, political activist, and underground cartoonist.

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Hayes Valley, San Francisco

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

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Jaxon (cartoonist)

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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Joel Beck

Joel Beck (May 7, 1943 – September 14, 1999) was a San Francisco Bay Area artist and cartoonist.

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Kerry Wendell Thornley

Kerry Wendell Thornley (April 17, 1938 – November 28, 1998) was an American author.

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King Features Syndicate

King Features Syndicate, Inc. is an American content distribution and animation studio, consumer product licensing and print syndication company owned by Hearst Communications that distributes about 150 comic strips, newspaper columns, editorial cartoons, puzzles, and games to nearly 5,000 newspapers worldwide.

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Larry Gonick

Larry Gonick (born 1946) is an American 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 (publisher)

Last Gasp is a San Francisco–based book publisher with a lowbrow art and counterculture focus. Rip Off Press and Last Gasp (publisher) are comic book publishing companies of the United States, Companies based in San Francisco and underground comix.

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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 (May 21, 1941July 20, 2000), better known by the pen name Malaclypse the Younger, was an American author.

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Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics is an American comic book publisher and the property of The Walt Disney Company since December 31, 2009, and a subsidiary of Disney Publishing Worldwide since March 2023. Rip Off Press and Marvel Comics are comic book publishing companies of the United States.

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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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Offset printing

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

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Political cartoon

A political cartoon, also known as an editorial cartoon, is a cartoon graphic with caricatures of public figures, expressing the artist's opinion.

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Politics

Politics is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status.

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Principia Discordia

The Principia Discordia is the first published Discordian religious text.

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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. Rip Off Press and Print Mint are comic book publishing companies of the United States and underground comix.

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Printing press

A printing press is a mechanical 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 rock music genre that is inspired, influenced, or representative of psychedelic culture, which is centered on perception-altering hallucinogenic drugs.

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Publishing

Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software, and other content available to the public for sale or for free.

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Recreational drug use

Recreational drug use is the use of one or more psychoactive drugs to induce an altered state of consciousness, either for pleasure or for some other casual purpose or pastime.

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Rip Off Comix

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

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Robert Crumb

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

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Sacramento metropolitan area

The Greater Sacramento area refers to a metropolitan region in Northern California comprising either the U.S. Census Bureau defined Sacramento–Roseville–Arden-Arcade metropolitan statistical area or the larger Sacramento–Roseville combined statistical area, the latter of which consists of seven counties, namely Sacramento, Yolo, Placer, El Dorado, Sutter, Yuba, and Nevada counties.

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San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.

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Savage Henry

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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Student publication

A student publication is a media outlet such as a newspaper, magazine, television show, or radio station produced by students at an educational institution.

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Ted Richards (artist)

Theodore Richards (October 20, 1946 – April 21, 2023) was an American web designer and cartoonist, best known for his underground comix.

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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. Rip Off Press and the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers are underground comix.

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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. Rip Off Press and The Rip Off Review of Western Culture are underground comix.

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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 that are often socially relevant or satirical in nature.

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Universal Studios, Inc.

Universal Studios, Inc. (formerly as MCA Inc., also known simply as Universal) is an American media and entertainment conglomerate and is owned by NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast. Rip Off Press and Universal Studios, Inc. are entertainment companies based in California.

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Wimmen's Comix

Wimmen's Comix, later retitled (respelled) as Wimmin's Comix, is an influential all-female underground comics anthology published from 1972 to 1992. Rip Off Press and Wimmen's Comix are underground comix.

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Wonder Wart-Hog

Wonder Wart-Hog (the "Hog of Steel") is an underground comic book character, a porcine parody of Superman, created by American cartoonist Gilbert Shelton and first published in 1962. Rip Off Press and Wonder Wart-Hog are underground comix.

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Zippy the Pinhead

Zippy the Pinhead is a fictional character who is the protagonist of Zippy, an American comic strip created by Bill Griffith. Rip Off Press and Zippy the Pinhead are underground comix.

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1986 San Francisco fireworks disaster

The 1986 San Francisco fireworks disaster took place on April 5, 1986, when a massive explosion and fire devastated a city block in the Bayview district of San Francisco.

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See also

Publishing companies established in 1969

References

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

Also known as Fred Todd, Rip Off Press Syndicate.

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