American artist Rick Griffin originally produced his comic Tales from the Tube as an insert for Surfer Magazine in 1972. An expanded 32-page version of the comic was published separately by The Print Mill, Berkeley the following year. Apart from Griffin’s own work it contained contributions by S. Clay Wilson, Robert Crumb, Bill Ogden and other…
Yellow Dog #25, the final issue of one of the longest-running underground comics titles, was published by The Print Mint in 1973. ‘Yellow Dog’ was initiated in 1968 by artists Joel Beck and John Thompson and The Print Mint’s owner Don Schenker. The symbol of the comics was a yellow dog pissing (originally on Herman Melville’s Captain Ahab). ‘Yellow Dog’ started as a full-size underground newspaper…
The short-lived Insect Fear underground comics (three issues appeared between 1970 and 1973) were edited by Spain Rodriguez and published by the legendary Print Mint, which was run by Alice & Don Schenker and their partners Peggy & Bob Rita from Berkeley and San Francisco.