The Complete Zap Comix

Zap epitomised the seismic changes that were happening within American culture as much as any album, novel or film of that era… Zap brought together a new wave of miscreant cartoonists who would define the psychedelic art of the era and later create great works beyond this one comic. Still as essential a part of any alternatively minded adolescent’s formative years as the discovery of Jimi Hendrix, Easy Rider or that first tentative tug on a joint…– “The Guardian”
When Crumb did the first Zap, it just hit the whole underground comics world like a hurricane.–Spain Rodriguez

Robert Crumb

Born in Philadelphia, Robert Crumb is one of America’s most celebrated artists. Thrust reluctantly into fame as a defining voice of the 1960s and 1970s counterculture with comic strips like Fritz the Cat, Mr. Natural, and Keep on Truckin’, then again in the 1990s with the acclaimed documentary Crumb and more recently the 2025 biography Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life, he continues to push himself and his chosen medium from his home in the south of France. In addition to being one of the seven original Zap Comix contributors.

Robert Williams

Robert Williams’s influence on alternative art is immeasurable. From his endeavors to broaden the possibilities for young artists to gain exposure sprang the well-known art chronicle, Juxtapoz magazine. He is the subject of a recent documentary, Mr. Bitchin’. He lives in Chatsworth, CA with his wife Suzanne.

Gilbert Shelton

Gilbert Shelton (b. 1940, Dallas, Texas), a founding father of the underground comix movement, is the creator of the iconic comix characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Fat Freddy’s Cat, and Wonder Wart-Hog. He was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2012. He has been known to sing and play piano for the Blum Brothers, a Paris-based rhythm and blues group. He lives in Paris, France, with his wife and an ever-changing number of cats.

Paul Mavrides

Paul Mavrides (b. 1952), an enigmatic cartoonist, painter, and graphic artist, began collaborating with Gilbert Shelton on The Freak Brothers in 1978. He is a founding member of the Church of the SubGenius. In 1997, after a six-year legal battle, he won a landmark decision for artists’ rights in California that established a legal equivalency between written-word authors and cartoonists.

Manuel Rodriguez (Spain)

Manuel Rodriguez (1940-2012), better known as Spain, was one of the great American underground and socially conscious cartoonists.

Victor Moscoso

Victor Moscoso is one of the defining stylists of the psychedelic culture of the 1960s, and one of the original Zap Comix artists (with R. Crumb, Robert Williams, Gilbert Shelton, Spain Rodriguez, S. Clay Wilson and Rick Griffin). He lives with his wife Gail in San Francisco, California.

Richard Alden Griffin

Richard Alden Griffin (1944-1991) was an American artist and one of the leading designers of psychedelic posters in the 1960s. He was a key figure in the underground comix movement as a founding member of the Zap Comix collective.

Steve Clay Wilson

Steve Clay Wilson (1941-2021) was an American underground cartoonist and central figure in the underground comix movement. Wilson attracted attention from readers with aggressively violent and sexually explicit panoramas of lowlife individuals, often depicting the wild escapades of pirates and bikers.

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