Zap Comix was a series of comic zines initiated by Robert Crumb in 1968 to showcase his own work. The series is considered to have launched the underground comics movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Zap Comix saw 16 issues, the last having been published as late as 2014. The first issue was sold on the streets of San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district and aimed at the district’s alternative inhabitants, its adult and psychedelic contents free of restraints imposed by censorship of the Comics Code Authority. For the second issue Crumb invited fellow-artists Rick Griffin, S. Clay Wilson and Victor Moscose to contribute…
