Arcade Comics Review
by Sarah Sutton
Fall 2004

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Arcade Comics Review was a series of 7 books. The books were published between 1976 and 1977. The price of these books must have sky-rocketed considering they have such big name artists in them including Diane Noomin, R. Crumb, and the first Zippy the Pinhead comics. There were 7 published (that I could find) and out of those I believe that R. Crumb drew 6 of the covers. His style is extremely noticable and helps make the covers very memorable.
These books were produced to include a wide variety of new underground comic artists. I think that the reason that these artists all got together to produce this one compilation was to show that comic books are an extremely hard form of art. They wanted to prove to the general public that this is an art just like painthing and scuplture. The artists and stories included were not what people of the time thought of comic books. They are not the stereotypical super heroes and villans. The stories are real stories that push the line in convtroversial material. Diane Noomin in her Didi Glitz stories writes a lot about sex and portrays these images that would usually not be published. The same goes for all of the artists included especially R. Crumb.

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