Jay Kinney was an active participant in the underground comix movement from 1968 through the 1970s--he cofounded the romance comic satire Young Lust, founded and edited Anarchy Comics, and contributed to numerous other comics. He served as editor of CoEvolution Quarterly before founding Gnosis. He is the author of Hidden Wisdom, The Inner West, and The Masonic Myth, and recently contributed a chapter on underground comics to Ten Years that Shook the City: San Francisco 1968-1978. He lives in San Francisco.
"60's counterculture, supposedly political, mostly concerned itself
with hedonism and self-focused individualism, as did the
underground comix it engendered. Jay Kinney's and Paul Mavrides'
Anarchy Comics, to which all the scene's most artistically and
politically adventurous creators gravitated, was an almost singular
exception. Combining a grasp of Anarchy's history and principles
with a genuinely anarchic and experimental approach to the form
itself, Anarchy Comics represents a blazing pinnacle of what the
underground was, and what it could have been. A brave and brilliant
collection."
--Alan Moore, celebrated comic writer and creator of V for
Vendetta, Watchmen, From Hell, The League of Extraordinary
Gentlemen, and numerous other comics and novels "Anarchy Comics was
an education I never got in school. I learned more deep truths
about the way human megatribes operate (while at the same time
being greatly amused by the superb art and writing) than from any
textbook. Decades later, the insights I gleaned from these
brilliant comics still affect the way I view global events."
--Mark Frauenfelder, founder of boingboing.net "Thrill to this
recently disinterred archeological fragment from a lost
civilization about to be reinvented. Anarchy Comics is a dream come
true."
--Mark Rudd, founding member of the Weather Underground and author
of the recent memoir, Underground: My Life with SDS and the
Weathermen "In the late '70s and early '80s we briefly had a comic
voice that told our history (IWW, Spanish Civil War, Kronstadt),
illustrated our culture (Brecht, communes, Yippies), and skewered
our nemeses (Lenin, Mao, Trotsky), all with a large but necessary
dose of self-deprecating humor. That was Anarchy Comics, and
finally we can read it again!"
--Josh MacPhee, co-editor of Signal, founder of justseeds.org
"Anarchy Comics, revisited here, with an ardent introduction by its
principal editor, Jay Kinney, was a wonder of the underground
comics world. Perhaps it might be better described as a wonder of
the fading comics world, because times had grown difficult for the
genre and Kinney was pulling out the stops to show off what was
really funny and insightful in the genre at large, extending them
into another era. Anarchy belongs to the last third of the
twentieth century, and yet has lost none of its power for today's
troubled world. Go to the original, reader--look and learn!"
--Paul Buhle, founder of Radical America and Cultural
Correspondence, editor of the Encyclopedia of Radical Art
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