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Fever Dreams, Richard Corben, Jan Strnad, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Fever Dreams, Richard Corben, Jan Strnad, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Underground Comix
"The cover story, "To Meet the Faces You Meet," has been adapted as the movie MEAD, premiering in summer 2022. Written by frequent Corben collaborator Jan Strnad this is one of the pair's true classics. … This early underground comix science fiction cross-over was very popular, going through several printings. The other portion of the comic is "The Unicorn Quest," also written by Strnad but drawn by John Adkins Richardson. Fabulous front cover by Corben (later printings are generally not as vivid as this initial printing)." – from Steve Krupp's Curio Shoppe a division of www.deniskitchen.com. The Adler Archive …
Color, Victor Moscoso, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Color, Victor Moscoso, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Underground Comix
32 pages : color illustrations. Comic book issued in staple-bound, color-printed wrappers, with illustration across front and back wrappers, depicting humanoid robot with elongated, flexible limbs, with eyes atop feet and ray-gun for head, ascending a rainbow spiral with spheroid space station, large-finned space ship, and planet Saturn with rainbow-colored rings. "Adults Only" Born in Spain, Victor Moscoso was the first of the counterculture rock poster artists with formal academic training and experience. After studying art at Cooper Union in New York City and at Yale University, he moved to San Francisco in 1959. There, he attended the San Francisco …