Gilbert Shelton y el cómic underground como medio de comunicación social.: La educación crítica y libertaria desde los cómix para adultos

The emergence of underground comics, in the 1960s, in American society, was transformative for the comics industry itself. It marked the opening of the comics to adult audiences, and the creation of new types of comics with content that, through satire and humor, criticized the surrounding social reality with radical proposals that broke with the Comic Code: pacifist protest, the hippie movement, drugs, opposition to all forms of power (the government, the Pope and the police), and free love, among others. Not only did circumstances change for readers, artists enjoyed greater freedom of expression and owned their copyrights, unlike working for major publishers. Gilbert Shelton epitomizes one of the most significant examples of the emergence of comics, its evolution, and its rise. He started modestly at university with a university newspaper, continued publishing his own fanzines from his garage, published his own comics in other journals or fanzines, and co-founded the publishing house Rip Off Press.