When I was perusing Robert Crumb I assumed he was part of a movement called "Underground Comics". It was about breaking the norms of what Disney would publish.

When I was perusing Robert Crumb I assumed he was part of a movement called "Underground Comics". It was about breaking the norms of what Disney would publish. The "normal" in those days was Nixon and Vietnam war. Pot-smoking was a terrible unpatriotic crime. There wasn't really much other comics for adults. I don't mean sexually explicit but just something serious which wouldn't appeal to kids. But there was some sex which was refreshing. Still it was always (?) not about being pornographic but being thought-provoking, questioning the sexual mores of the post-war puritan America. Even questioning the misogynic world-view I would say. Crumb put a spotlight on it, not promote it.