The International Comix Conspiracy

Playboy, December 1970

Although the underground movement changed the face of comics and begat alternative comics, part of it was another boys' club, and Playboy was there to cover the aspects of it that would be of interest to its readers.

January 1970

November 1970

And here was an ad from the December 1970 issue, artist unknown

The Great Speckled Post

Some of this was in The Complete Crumb Comics, but here it is in its original context, from the December 1970 ESQUIRE.







Apparently, the original caption to the S. Clay Wilson cartoon was “What's come over you, Bernice?” but deemed too dirty for them. What do you expect when you hire underground cartoonists for a mainstream magazine?

I'm not sure who did the Henry Syverson parody.

from ESQUIRE, October 1957