Once upon a time, many decades ago during a mythical time known as “The 60s” America’s counterculture conceived a new art and literary genre known as “underground comix.” Before animojis, emojis, and even GIFs, these hand-drawn (and often self-published) comic strips by artists such as Robert Crumb, Manuel “Spain” Rodriquez and Gilbert Shelton communicated satirical, subversive, raunchy, funny and insightful takes on the state of American society. Perhaps because it was quite illegal then, cannabis was a dominant theme in many of the day’s comix, and their exotic, rebellious approach to reefer reeled in a new audience of young people craving both laughs and a different line than the mainstream media was feeding them. Texas native Gilbert Shelton was among the artists who found marijuana to be a critical and illuminating plot device.
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