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Crumb, Art Spiegelman, S. Clay Wilson, Jay Lynch, Trina Robbins, Mort Gerberg, Jay Kinney, Richard Guindon, Nicole Hollander, Skip Williamson, and many others.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Krassner\u003c\/b\u003e, born 1932, is an American author, journalist, comedian, editor, and a founding member of the Yippies. Krassner was a contributor to early issues of \u003ci\u003eMad\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, and is the only person to win awards for both \u003ci\u003ePlayboy\u003c\/i\u003e and the Feminist Party Media Workshop.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEthan Persoff\u003c\/b\u003e is an archivist, cartoonist, and sound artist. His website \u003ci\u003eComics with Problems\u003c\/i\u003e has brought historically significant comics to 21st century audiences and has been featured on multiple segments of \u003ci\u003eThe Rachel Maddow Sho\u003c\/i\u003ew, as well as on CSPAN and Air America. It won a SXSW award in 2002. Fantagraphics has published his original comics work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eArt Spiegelman\u003c\/b\u003e is one of the world’s most admired and beloved comic artists, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning Holocaust narrative, \u003ci\u003eMaus\u003c\/i\u003e. Born in Stockholm in 1948, Spiegelman studied art and philosophy at Harpur College before joining the underground comics movement in the 1960s. Spiegelman taught history and the aesthetics of comics at the School of Visual Arts in New York from 1979 to 1986, and in 1980 he founded \u003ci\u003eRAW\u003c\/i\u003e, the acclaimed avant-garde comics magazine, with his wife, Françoise Mouly. Honors Spiegelman has received include induction into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame and the Art Director’s Club Hall of Fame. In 2005, he was named one of \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e magazine’s 100 Most Influential People. He was made an Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2007, and in 2011 he was awarded the Grand Prix at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. In 2015, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2018 he became the first comic artist to receive the Edward MacDowell Medal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in Philadelphia, \u003cb\u003eRobert Crumb\u003c\/b\u003e is one of America’s most celebrated artists. Thrust reluctantly into fame as a defining voice of the 1960s and 1970s counterculture with comic strips like \u003ci\u003eFritz the Cat, Mr. Natural\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eKeep on Truckin’\u003c\/i\u003e, then again in the 1990s with the acclaimed documentary \u003ci\u003eCrumb\u003c\/i\u003e and more recently the 2025 biography \u003ci\u003eCrumb: A Cartoonist’s Life\u003c\/i\u003e, he continues to push himself and his chosen medium from his home in the south of France.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eComics \u003ci\u003eher\u003c\/i\u003estorian \u003cb\u003eTrina Robbins\u003c\/b\u003e (1939-2024) was an American cartoonist. She was an early participant and one of the first women in the underground comix movement. She co-produced the 1970 underground comic \u003ci\u003eIt Ain't Me, Babe\u003c\/i\u003e, which was the first comic book entirely created by women. She co-founded the \u003ci\u003eWimmen's Comix\u003c\/i\u003e collective, wrote for \u003ci\u003eWonder Woman\u003c\/i\u003e, and produced adaptations of \u003ci\u003eDope\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Silver Metal Lover\u003c\/i\u003e. She was inducted into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame in 2013 and received Eisner Awards in 2017 and 2021. As a scholar and historian, Robbins researched the history of women in cartooning. She wrote several nonfiction books including \u003ci\u003ePretty In Ink\u003c\/i\u003e (2013), and \u003ci\u003eFlapper Queens: Women Cartoonists of the Jazz Age \u003c\/i\u003e(2020).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJay Lynch\u003c\/b\u003e (1945-2017) was a \u003ci\u003eMad\u003c\/i\u003e magazine and Topps's \u003ci\u003eWacky Packages\/Garbage Pail Kids \u003c\/i\u003econtributor and a member of the 1960s-1970s underground comics movement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNicole Hollander\u003c\/b\u003e is best known for her syndicated comic strip, \u003ci\u003eSylvia\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has been archived in the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library at Ohio State University, alongside Roz Chast’s, Bill Watterson’s, and other greats. She has published fifteen books, and blogs at badgirlchats.com. 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