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The Rubber Frame: American Underground and Alternative Comics, 1964-2004 Exhibition

The Rubber Frame: American Underground and Alternative Comics, 1964-2004 Exhibition


Oct. 1 to Oct. 30 2005

Washington University School of Art Des Lee Gallery, 1627 Washington Ave. The exhibition will include approximately 150 original drawings by 30 artists, including underground pioneers Robert Crumb, Kim Deitch, Spain Rodriguez, Gilbert Shelton and Frank Stack (a.k.a. Foolbert Sturgeon), the latter a longtime art professor at the University of Missouri in Columbia, whose Adventures of Jesus (1964) is widely considered the first underground. Contemporary practitioners include Clowes, Spiegelman, Ware, Charles Burns, Gary Panter and Jaime Hernandez, the latter co-founder (with brothers Gilbert and Mario) of the seminal alternative book Love and Rockets. Also featured are three St. Louis artists, Kevin Huizenga, Ted May and Dan Zettwoch.

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