Research Catalog

Title

King bee. No. 1 (1969).

Publication

San Francisco : Apex Novelty Co. (Don Donahue), 1969.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Crumb, R., 1943-
• Griffin, Rick.
• Moscoso, Victor.
• Wilson, S. Clay, 1941-2021.

Description

[32] pages : illustrations; (1969)

Series Statement

King bee ; no. 1

Uniform Title

King bee ; no. 1.

Subjects

• Sexual freedom > 20th century
• Sex (Psychology)
• Sadomasochism > History
• Sexual behavior > Men
• Noir fiction, American > Satire
• Sexual behavior > Women
• Group sex > Caricatures and cartoons
• Satire, American > Caricatures and cartoons
• Counterculture > California > San Francisco
• Sex role > Humor
• Sadomasochism > Pictorial works
• Hippies > California > San Francisco > Caricatures and cartoons

Note

• Tabloid newspaper format.
• All published.
• 1000 copies printed.
• "All The Boogie That’s Fit to Print!"—Motto on front page.
• Front page art by R. Crumb, unsigned, depicting anthropomorphosed male dump trunk coupling with female sedan against lamppost bending under their weight.
• Edited by S. Clay Wilson.
• Apex Novelty Co. was owned and founded by Don Donahue (1942-2010), a pioneer of the 1960s underground commix movement.
• Illustrated with signed and unsigned comic strips by S. Clay Wilson, and unsigned collaborative comic strips by R. Crumb, S. Clay Wilson, Victor Moscoso, and Rick Griffin (most notably, Reel Jam, p. 2); drawings by Peter Max; unsigned collages by S. Clay Wilson; mock serialized detective murder mystery, unsigned (The Love Knot-Blood Knot Caper: A Caesar Steele Mystery); article by Dr. Flagstaff Montgomery (pseud?) on sado-masochism in Britain and U.S. of 1920s-1930s; and a short story by Jeremy Marks (pseud?), A Sunday Kind of Love.
• S. Clay Wilson (b. 1941) was one of the most important artists in the underground commix movement, known for his exaggerated depictions of explicit and often violent sexuality. He was an early contributor to Zap Comix; R. Crumb, who worked with him at Zap, cited his work as a liberating influence on his own. All of the contributors to King Bee knew each other from their work on the first issue of Zap Comix (Feb. 1968).

Access (note)

• Restricted access

Call Number

Berg Coll+++ Counterculture K56 1969

OCLC

945772768

Title

King bee. No. 1 (1969).

Imprint

San Francisco : Apex Novelty Co. (Don Donahue), 1969.

Series

King bee ; no. 1

King bee ; no. 1.

Access

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Added Author

Crumb, R., 1943- Illustrator

Griffin, Rick. Illustrator

Moscoso, Victor. Illustrator

Wilson, S. Clay, 1941-2021. Illustrator

Research Call Number

Berg Coll+++ Counterculture K56 1969