Audience Quote by Phoebe Gloeckner

Underground comics were striking in that they seemed largely unedited - in a typical book, with stories by five to ten creators, some stories…

— Phoebe Gloeckner

When people say 'What are underground comics?' I think the best way you can define them is just the absolute freedom involved... we didn't…

— Robert Crumb

I had thought comics could only be one thing, and that was what mainstream comics were selling us. And the undergrounders proved anything you…

— Stephen R. Bissette

I didn't really get into underground comics, though I've liked some of what I've seen. Dame Darcy was very impressive to meet, really talented.…

— Neil Farber

Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn't an issue. No one would get into doing a black-and-white…

— Adrian Tomine

I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and…

— Jonathan Lethem

Of course, I started really being a comics fan with the underground stuff in the '70s

— Glenn Danzig

I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics.

— Anthony Bourdain

Comic books have gone mainstream. The audience is there.

— John Wesley Shipp

I know I'm a grumpy old man, but I'm always more delighted by readers talking about the actual comics than people talking about how…

— Brian K. Vaughan

As I see it, mainstream comics now speak only to the hardcore few who stayed; conversing in a weird, garbled, visual pig latin only…

— Scott McCloud

Look, there's no denying that comics have moved dramatically into the mainstream in North American culture in the last 10 years, and for someone…

— Adrian Tomine