Rick Griffin and Victor Moscoso, two of Zap’s four regular contributors, were gathered in the studio of Robert Crumb, designer of the cover cartoon, Zap’s founder and presiding genius ...

In his new biography of Robert Crumb, Dan Nadel writes that his subject ... created the seminal underground comix series “Zap Comix” and worked on other projects at a maniacal pace.

R. Crumb created Zap Comix and such characters as Mr. Natural and Fritz the Cat. His comics were a staple of the 1960s counterculture, and came out of his nightmares, fantasies and fetishes.

His Zap Comix series, which premiered in 1968 ... “I thought they’d all go under if I didn’t keep feeding them R. Crumb comics on a regular basis,” Crumb said at the time.

Robert Crumb is to comics what Louis Armsrong is to ... just in time for the Summer of Love and a psychedelic renaissance. Zap Comix, Crumb’s first comic to get wide national distribution ...

the birth of underground comic books in 1960s San Francisco with Crumb’s Zap Comix; the economic challenges and dissolution of the hippie dream; and the path Robert Crumb blazed through it all.

In his new biography of Robert Crumb, Dan Nadel writes that his subject ... created the seminal underground comix series “Zap Comix” and worked on other projects at a maniacal pace.