Underground Comics: Funny Book

I found an interesting comic book, an underground comic named “Funny Book”. First of all, a word “Adult Only” attracted my attention and I could figure out by just looking at the cover page. The characters were cartoony but their actions were described as violating, and my guess was right. At first page, I could see cussing from a teenaged girl character who dealt with sex and drugs. Same as other chapters, they all went with sex, drugs, murders, violations, and sarcasm. Just listening to 60s soundtracks, my first reaction was “It is so hippie”. The book I read was very honest with their expressions, emotions, feelings, and freedom. They literally drew and described whatever they wanted.

I am more familiar with genres like action or fantasy that we can commonly watch or read rather than such maniac subjects. For me, this is very new but realized that comics could be drawn in this perspective. One thing that I was attracted was they were liberal and not restricted by the world. For instance, regular comics or cartoons have a specific targeted audience, especially children or teenagers. This means they cannot easily put something controversial like drugs or alcohol. Everything is limited and whatever the readers are offended by, they can always complain and the artists had to follow their requests. The “Funny Book” was different. The artists were revealing their desires that they had hidden to the world.

Therefore, I could empathize with the underground artists because I would rather make stuff for myself than cater to an audience.