Last Gasp is a book and
underground comix publisher and distributor based in San Francisco,
California
.
History
Founded in 1970 by Ron Turner to publish the ecologically-themed
comics magazine
Slow Death Funnies, followed by the
all-female anthology
It
Ain't Me Babe, Last Gasp soon became a major part of the
underground comics/comix movement. Notable artists published by
Last Gasp include
Tim Biskup,
Robert Crumb,
Ron
English,
Camille Rose
Garcia,
Justin Green,
Bill Griffith,
Spain Rodriguez,
Mark
Ryden,
Dori Seda,
Larry Welz,
Robert Williams, and
S. Clay Wilson.
In the early 1980s Last Gasp published some of the first books
about the West Coast
punk rock
scene.
Current publishing
Last Gasp today publishes few comic books. The company publishes
art and photography books,
graphic
novels, fiction, and poetry. Last Gasp operates as a publisher,
distributor, and wholesaler for books of all types, often with a
lowbrow art and
counterculture focus.
Comix
This is a partial list of underground comix published by Last
Gasp.
Books
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