Robert Crumb was among the most famous and prolific artists associated with the “comix” movement-satirical, self-published, and focused on content forbidden by the mainstream Comics Code Authority-with his role as a founder of Zap Comix creator of counterculture characters in comic strips including Fritz the Cat, Mr. Robert Crumb, Chris Ware, Rob Syers, Shyppy Mark, Vaughn Bode, and Charles Burns push back the limits of what they saw as official taste and academicism, from a profoundly underground comic strip world that they have invented, converging with issues that others are investigating from within institutions of contemporary art.Īs films featuring superheroes from Marvel and DC comic books continue to dominate box offices around the world, a less-heralded group of comic characters and their artists from the countercultural Underground Comix movement of the 1960s and 1970s are still redefining graphic arts, comics, and cartoons. It investigates the links that artists have forged with comic strip aesthetics and narrative drawing over the past sixty years and sheds light on the work of certain alternative comic strip artists working in the underground or whose practice deliberately departs from the expectations of a restrictive mass culture industry.īringing together the drawings, paintings, sculptures, videos, music, and documents of over thirty artists from the 1960s to today, Comics Trip! presents several generations of artists engaged in deconstructing our relationship with the canons of good taste and beauty, in breaking down borders between high art and popular culture, and whose work is imbued by the subcultures with whom they share time and space and that they feed into. Imagined as part of the program of BD 2020-deemed the “Year of the Comic Strip” in France-the exhibition Comics Trip! is envisaged as an incisive journey into the heart of radical drawing practices within contemporary art.
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