Monday, October 1, 2012

Underground Comics

I can see why parents at the time wanted to ban pornography from comics. Of course children would be handing around comic shops and seeing these graphic images. But, while some are just for pornography's sake, sex is only a minor aspect of the comic's story. However, I found that the comic where a couple goes flying and as they are, fornicate and fall out of the sky and land in the lake upon climax. Talk about a weird fantasy. But not as weird as when the white man, in Crumb's story, has sex with a Yeti. But, that isn't the main purpose of the story. Even after being rescued from the wilderness the man still goes back with the yeti. I think that the story implies that we are all still animals weather we like it or not. We all desire comfort and security and perhaps the modern life is way too complicated to be appealing. Crumb also creates a lot of religious stories, like when the man is entranced by the golden fish necklace and his religious experiences cures his illness for a short period of time. He also creates the comic version of the bible. And everyone knows that there is sex talked about in the bible, however, Crumb shows it. I think that as people are concerned talking about sex is some-what appropriate  however, showing it, is out of the question.  The big shocker for people at the time were the gay comics, since homosexually was still taboo. The stories are interesting about how each person goes through their life challenges.

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