“Controfumetto” in Italia negli anni Sessanta e Settanta

Abstract

This article offers an overview of the main underground comix in Italy, produced thanks to the underground press during the Sixties and the Seventies. In the course of the analysis some of the main developmental lines of the phe-nomenon, certainly underestimated compared to the most famous American comix, are identified, and the fact is foregrounded that the comic represents a common ground of experimentation between the counter-cultural movements and the Neo-avantgarde with the purpose of opposition to commercial logic and the ideology of late capitalism.

Keywords

• counterculture
• neo-avantgarde
• situationism
• underground comix
• underground press