Anarchism

Overtly anarchist in its bent, all content included was based on anarchist philosophy and history. The humor of each anthology was satirical in nature, mocking both mainstream culture as well as traditional leftist ideas of revolution.

Punk rock

Roger Sabin

Roger Sabin

Roger Sabin is a writer about comics and lecturer at Central St. Martins in London, England. He is best known for his book titled Comics, Comix & Graphic Novels: A History of Comic Art and has also written newspaper articles on the topic of comics.-Books:...

, an English historian of comics and subculture, noted a number of connections between the comic and the Punk rock

Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

 subculture of the '70s, suggesting that Jay Kenny "clearly hoped to pick up a share of the punk market with this very political comic." The covers of issues No.2 and No.3 both feature archetypal "punk" characters, and issue No. 2 features the short comic "Kultur Documents", a punk rock parody of Archie Comics

Archie Comics

Archie Comics is an American comic book publisher headquartered in the Village of Mamaroneck, Town of Mamaroneck, New York, known for its many series featuring the fictional teenagers Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge, Reggie Mantle and Jughead Jones. The characters were created by...

. Sabin also analyzes "Too Real", Jay Kinny's short comic from the first issue, as being jointly inspired by a combination of Situationist and punk rock imagery. Sabin noted that many of the comics didn't have any relationship to Punk culture, but thought that the comic may have introduced radical ideas to a generation of new, young punks.

Media information

A total of four issues of Anarchy Comics were published between 1978 and 1987. Only the first issue remains in print.

List of Anarchy Comics issues

• • "Too Real" by Jay Kinney
  • "Nestor Makhno" by Spain Rodriguez (originally published in T.R.A.; 1976)
  • "Smarmy Comics" by Jay Kinney
  • "The Quilting Bee" by Melinda Gebbie
  • "Blood and Sky" by Spain Rodriguez
  • "Gilbert Shelton's Advanced International Motoring Tips" by Gilbert Shelton
  • "Liberty Through The Ages" by Epistolier and Volny, with translation by Berangere Lomont (originally published in L'Echo Des Savanes No.29; 1977)
  • "What's The Difference" by J.R. Burnham
  • "Owd Nancy's Petticoat" by Clifford Harper
  • "Safehouse" by Dohrn
  • "On Contradiction" by M. Tsetung
  • "Today's Rhetoric" by 'Spud' Silber
  • "Some Straight Talk About Anarchy" by Paul Mavrides

Related topics

• Anarchism and the arts
  Anarchism and the arts
  Anarchism has long had an association with the arts, particularly in music and literature. It shares this trait with other political movements, such as socialism, communism, liberalism, conservatism, libertarianism and even fascism....
  
  
• Anarky
  Anarky
  Anarky is a fictional character appearing in books published by DC Comics. Co-created by Alan Grant and Norm Breyfogle, he first appeared in Detective Comics No.608 , as an adversary of Batman...
  
  
• Trashman (comics)

External links

• Anarchy Comics, distributed by AK Press.