Week 6 ~ Underground Comix

It's clear why these kinds of comics are called underground comics. The content is obviously different than what mainstream comics showed during that time. They have explicit sexual content, drug use, and violence. It's understandable why they were pretty popular. They were something different and who doesn't want something thats forbidden.
Though I understand why these kinds of comics may have appealed to people, I'm not really a fan of them. I feel like most of them were made to appeal to men. I read Whiteman by Robert Crumb and it just seemed like it was just a man's fantasy. I want to say it was funny, but I mostly found it disgusting.
The character is a man who goes camping with his family. He forces his kids to go on a hike and enjoy the outdoors and is later abducted by the abominable snowman. The creature gives him up to his daughter who is a large hairy monster with very big breasts, pointy nipples and a large behind. Later he tries to escape but ends up very tired and realizes that the creature is very warm and climbs on top of her while she sleeps. He decides he "might as well" take off his pants so he can keep warm and survive. He ends up having sex with her and expresses that it's the best he's ever had.

Some of the language later used in the comic as some city men catcall the creature while she is disguised as a woman is dripping with objectification. It feels like a lot of them were written by men, or people who were trying to be funny but really it's just misogynistic and gross.

I read another comic that also depicts nude women and further emphasizes the kind of content that people wanted to publish with these underground comics. They had a chance to draw and write content that they wouldn't be able to if they worked with mainstream publishers so why not go all out.