Bayou Collection of Underground Comix

This small site is about Underground Comix from the 60s & 70s, sometimes called UGs or u-comix.  I am an avid second-generation collector of u-comix, and I built this site to house research information and images of my collection.  These daze, I semi-regularly post as oldmilwaukee6er at three message boards (CGC, CPG, & HeadComix) that are partially (CPG) or wholly dedicated to u-comix (HeadComix).  In February 2006, I served as Assistant Editor for Fogel's Underground Comix Price Guide (FUG) and have contributed database work toward the FUG Supplement due out in 2008.  I have also published an article in GPAnalysis' newsletter on 'EC-esque Undergrounds.'##

For me it all started in Billings, MT (c. 2000)- a friend, knowing I was into comics coming up, gave me a stack of UG's- mostly Freak Brothers, Fat Freddy's Cat, and a Mr Natural, all in a gallon ziplock bag.  I tried for a long time to learn more about them- printings, why they weren't in Overstreet, etc., but to no avail.  I watched and never bid on Freak Brothers & Zap Comix auctions on eBay for over 2 years trying to learn which were early printings, but it wasn't helping... I kept waiting for a 35-cent Freak Bros. #1! 

Fast forward... one day (c. 2002), now in Louisiana, I asked my grrl to check out every book on comics from the University library.  She came home with Estren's "A History of Underground Comix"... soon after, I came across u-comix publisher Don Donahue's (apexnovelties) auctions on eBay... he referenced Kennedy's Official Underground & Newave Comix Price Guide.  All watershed moments!  I found myself a used copy of Kennedy (1982) for $12 and I have been buying 'em ever since. 

Early on I specialized in Freak Bros. & Zap Comix (see also the galleries), and I tried to put together the best runs I could afford.  I like anthology comix like Zap, Bijou Funnies, Snarf & Yellow Dog.  I don't specifically collect Bode, Corben, or tabloids (too hard to store IMHO), but I appreciate most everything.  Right now my holy grail is Zap Comix #2 (1st; Heads First miscut) in VF or better. 

## http://www.mindscapemedia.com/gpa/ec_esque.htm