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The San Francisco Bay Area was an epicenter of the underground comix movement; Crumb and many other underground cartoonists lived in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood in the mid-to-late 1960s. [12]
Robert Dennis Crumb (/ k r ʌ m /; born August 30, 1943) is an American cartoonist who often signs his work R. Crumb. His work displays a nostalgia for American folk culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and satire of contemporary American culture.
Labeled "Fair Warning: For Adult Intellectuals Only", Zap #1 featured the publishing debut of Robert Crumb's much-bootlegged Keep on Truckin' imagery, an early appearance of unreliable holy man Mr. Natural and his neurotic disciple Flakey Foont, and the first of innumerable self-caricatures (in which Crumb calls himself "a raving lunatic", and "one of the world's last great medieval thinkers").
The Maze: Haight/Ashbury – 1967 KPIX-TV documentary about the Haight-Ashbury district presented by writer Michael McClure, from the Digital Information Virtual Archive at San Francisco State University; Who's Who of the Haight-Ashbury Era; The Haight Ashbury Era—a visual essay on the culture of the Haight-Ashbury in the 1960s
Haight Ashbury Free Press, San Francisco; Haight Ashbury Tribune, San Francisco (at least 16 issues) Illustrated Paper, Mendocino, 1966–1967; Leviathan, San Francisco, 1969–1970; Long Beach Free Press, Long Beach, 1969–1970; Los Angeles Free Press, Los Angeles, 1964–1978 (new series 2005–present)
John Curl: Memories of Drop City: The First Hippie Commune of the 1960s and the Summer of Love; Zuko Džumhur: Letters from Asia (Pisma iz Azije) 1973; the book mentions hippies in Afghanistan; Mickey Hart:The Art of the Filmore 1966–1971; Albert Hofmann:LSD, My Problem Child; Barney Hoskyns: Beneath the Diamond Sky: Haight-Ashbury 1965–1970
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The film follows "Today" Louise Malone, a middle class runaway originally from Arizona, as she settles in Haight-Ashbury. The film opens with scenes of the June 21 Summer Solstice Love-In which kicked off the summer of 1967, then follows Today around the district as she panhandles for spare change, dances at the Fillmore and Avalon ballrooms, sells underground papers to passersby, takes LSD ...