Your Hytone Comix
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paperback bound volume with half-tone and offset lithograph illustrations on wove paper, with cover in full color
Dimensions
sheet: 25.08 × 16.99 cm (9 7/8 × 6 11/16 in.) open: 25.08 × 33.97 cm (9 7/8 × 13 3/8 in.)
Classification
Volume
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of William and Abigail Gerdts
Accession Number
2014.126.69
Art Historical Context
**Your Hytone Comix** (1971) is a quintessential work from underground comix pioneer Robert Crumb published by the countercultural imprint Apex Novelties. Crumb, renowned for his raw, satirical drawings that captured the rebellious spirit of the late 1960s and early 1970s, used this paperback volume to explore taboo subjects like sexuality, social norms, and psychedelia. Emerging amid the hippie movement and anti-establishment fervor, it exemplifies the DIY ethos of underground comix, which bypassed mainstream publishers to deliver unfiltered, adult-oriented content to a growing audience of di...