Flamed Out
The Underground Adventures and Comix Genius of Willy Murphy
Published on 7. November 2023
Book
Hardback
232 pages
978-1-68396-540-4 (ISBN)
Description
An intimate (and sometimes goofy) portrait of cartoonist Willy Murphy's life, loves, and struggles -- and a revealing glimpse into the underground comix scene in San Francisco in the early and mid-1970s.
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Willy Murphy (1936 - 1976) was an American underground cartoonist, who poked fun at fellow hippies and contemporary American culture throughout the 1970s with characters often borrowed from real life. His signature character was Arnold Peck the Human Wreck, "a mid-30s beanpole with wry observations about his own life and the community around him." He contributed to such seminal underground anthologies as Arcade, Bijou Funnies, San Francisco Comic Book, as well as the National Lampoon.