{"id":21,"date":"2007-02-04T19:58:06","date_gmt":"2007-02-04T19:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=21"},"modified":"2012-03-30T07:32:10","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T07:32:10","slug":"nasty-tales-sex-drugs-rock-n-roll-and-violence-in-the-british-underground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/02\/04\/nasty-tales-sex-drugs-rock-n-roll-and-violence-in-the-british-underground\/","title":{"rendered":"Nasty Tales: Sex, Drugs, Rock &#8216;n&#8217; Roll and Violence in the British Underground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/nasty.jpg\" title=\"Nasty Tales\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/nasty.jpg\" alt=\"Nasty Tales\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By David Huxley<\/p>\n<p>Headpress: Critical Vision  ISBN:  1 900486 13 X<\/p>\n<p>The creative explosion of the 1960s and early 1970s has been largely forgotten these days, and never more so than in what used to be called &#8220;underground comix&#8221;.  This slim volume, written by one of the lesser luminaries of the scene, traces the developments and points of note of a generally fuzzy period in the history of the comic strip, with lavish illustration and keen insight into how our side of the pond responded to &#8220;the Man&#8221; and his implacable foes Robert Crumb, Wonder Warthog, the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and all those other forgotten immortals of the US counter-culture.<\/p>\n<p>Extensively researched, clearly propounded and sporting what seems to a complete chronological listing of all underground and alternative comic titles published between 1966-1982.<\/p>\n<p>Text: \u00c2\u00a9 2001 David Huxley. Illustrations \u00c2\u00a9 respective owners and artists.  All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By David Huxley Headpress: Critical Vision ISBN: 1 900486 13 X The creative explosion of the 1960s and early 1970s has been largely forgotten these days, and never more so than in what used to be called &#8220;underground comix&#8221;. This slim volume, written by one of the lesser luminaries of the scene, traces the developments &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/02\/04\/nasty-tales-sex-drugs-rock-n-roll-and-violence-in-the-british-underground\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nasty Tales: Sex, Drugs, Rock &#8216;n&#8217; Roll and Violence in the British Underground&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[119,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comicsacademic","category-miscellaneous"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}