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Black And White Comics, R. Crumb, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Underground Comix

24 unnumbered pages : illustrations. Cover title. Contents: Squirrely the squirrel -- Patricia Pig in "Patricia goes shopping" -- Bill the pill -- Big fine legs -- R. Crumb versus the sisterhood. Color cover illustration, b&w interior. The Adler Archive of Underground Comix, Gift of Bill Adler.

Artistic Comics, R. Crumb, Aline Kominsky, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Underground Comix

64 unnumbered pages : illustrations. Cover title. "A special issue made up entirely of exerpts [sic] from the secret sketchbooks of R. Crumb!"--Cover Comic books, strips, etc.The Adler Archive of Underground Comix, Gift of Bill Adler.

Sati The Rastifarian, Edgar White, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Illustration

[31] pages : illustrations (some color); 26cm. Illustration on title page, type in black and brown. Five-year-old Sati misses his home when he leaves the West Indies to come to New York for an education. Illustration on dust jacket. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.

The Art Institute Of Boston Course Catalog (1973), The Art Institute Of Boston

Art Institute of Boston (AIB) Course Catalogs

The Art Institute of Boston maintains, and always has maintained throughout the course of its long history, that the artist holds a unique position of responsibility in his society. Because the weight of his contribution is so widely felt in this age of the expanded media, the artist is expected to be not only innovator, but also arbitrator. The decisions which affect his life and his work influence a wide body of people who look to him for illumination.

Art cannot be taught as a development of certain visual talents separate from a larger awareness of life. The Art Institute …

Show + Tell Comic, Jsutin Green, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Underground Comix

32 unnumbered pages : illustrations. Cover title. Color cover illustrations printed in orange and blue, inside cover in red-purple, b&w interior. The Adler Archive of Underground Comix, Gift of Bill Adler.

El Perfecto Comics, Aline Kominsky (Editor), Various Artists, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Underground Comix

"An artists' benefit comic book for the Timothy Leary Defense Fund." The Adler Archive of Underground Comix, Gift of Bill Adler.

Middle Class Fantasies, Jerry Lane, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Underground Comix

2 numbers : black-and-white illustrations. Frequency: Irregular. Publication Dates: Began with no. 1 (1973); ceased with no. 2 (1976). Publisher: Industrial Realities, 1976. No. 1. 1st printing. Movie-themed underground comic produced by cartoonist Jerry Lane as part of his Masters thesis in art at California State University. A biography of Superman actor George Reeves; The Marx Brothers in A Night at Motel 6; Part 1 of The Frogman, and more. Mature readers. Black and white; 32 pages. Rita Hayworth cover illustration by Lane. Color cover illustrations, b&w interior. Library has No. 1 (1973). The Adler Archive of Underground Comix, Gift …

Zap Comix, No. 6, R. Crumb, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Underground Comix

Early issues were published by Apex Novelties and later reprinted by Last Gasp. Publisher became Print Mint with no. 3, Last Gasp with no. 10, and Fantagraphics with no. 16. No. 0 was drawn before issue no. 1 but published afterwards and numbered no. 0 to preserve the correct sequence. Zap Comics written and illustrated by Robert Crumb, S. Clay Wilson, Victor Moscoso, Rick Griffin, Gilbert Shelton, Spain Rodriguez, Robert Williams, Paul Mavrides. Zap Comix was an underground comix series which was originally part of the youth counterculture of the late 1960s. While a few small-circulation self-published satirical comic books …

Art Rite, Vol. 2, Edit Deak, Walter Robinson, Joshua Cohn, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

Vol.2 : illustrations. Cover art: William Wegman. 16 pgs.

Vol. 8: Each cover to this issue has unique hand coloring by Pat Steir. – Printed Matter, Inc. Some issues also have a distinctive title. Editor: Edit deAk ; Photo editor: Yuri. Co-founded and edited by Walter Robinson. No. 2 cover: William Wegman ; No. 7 cover: Vito Acconci ; No. 8 cover: Pat Steir ; No. 10 cover: Joseph Beuys ; Nos. 11-12 cover: Ed Ruscha ; No. 14 cover: Carl Andre. Library has: nos. 2, 7-12 & 14 (special issue on Artists' books) No. 9 Gift of Janice Woo, …

Quincy Book, Carl Andre, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

[40] pages : all ill. Published in conjunction with two exhibitions: Carl Andre "Six alloy plains" March 16-April 8, 1973, Addison Gallery of American Art.. ; Carl Andre "Seven books", March 16-April 14, 1973, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Mass. Anonymous gift.

144 Blocks & Stones, Carl Andre, Robert Smithson, Portland Center For The Visual Arts, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

[36] pages : all ill. "For Robert Smithson (1938-1973)"--Title-page. Catalog to accompany an exhibition at the Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Feb. 11-March 11, 1973.

Interminable Gabberjabbs, Waltersamuelhaatoum Hamady, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

[24] pages (2 pages on folded leaf) Hamady, Walter. Interminable gabberjabb ; 1. "The first in a series aptly entitled 'The interminable gabberjabbs'"--Page [12]. "Exactly 120 copies all numbered & initialled"--Colophon. The copy numbering was done using a cow-tattoo machine having only one of each numeral 0 through 9 and one of each letter A through Z; therefore improvization was required to number 120 copies "and the full accounting will go to the Perishable Press Limited archive at SUNY at Stony Brook"--Page [9]. Different sized handmade papers, red, black, brown and blue inks, sewn binding. Endpaper is part of a …

Pulse (For My Mother) = (Pour Sa Mère), Vito Acconci, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

[24] pages : ports. Cover title. Text in English and French. Library has no. 69 of 500; signed by the author.