Fantagraphics has announced the September release of Rebel Visions:  The Underground Comix Revolution 1963-1972 by Patrick Rosenkranz.  It will be a 240-page illustrated book, with 32 pages of color, for $39.95 retail.  The book follows the lives of 50 underground artists from 1967 to 1972,  the creative peak of the movement.  Rosenkranz, who has been working on the book for decades, had the cooperation of all the major underground cartoonists, including Crumb, Shelton, Griffith, Spiegelman, Jackson, Wilson, Williams, and more.  Illustrations include exclusive photos and previously unpublished drawings. 

 

With the 10-year-old third edition of Mark James Estren's History of Underground Comix the only in-print attempt to fully chronicle this phenomenon (although the hardcover edition of Clay Geerdes and Will Eisner's Underground Comics Family Album is still in print), this upscale treatment will be a great holiday book, appealing both to the boomers that now have $39.95 to spend remembering their youth and to others that want to learn more about this incredibly creative period.