Underground Comix and Alternative Comics at Comixjoint.com

Learn More about Underground Comic Books!

If you are new to collecting underground comix, be sure to check out our Top 50 Comix page (coming soon!) to discover some of the most notorious underground comix ever published. You can learn more from visiting our Archives, as well as our Forum and Features sections.

Because print editions (coming soon!) are important to underground collectors, we include scans of duplicate issues in our archives whenever we have distinct print editions. Although the majority of comix in our underground collection were printed in the 1960s and '70s, there were underground titles that had issues published up to the 1990s and beyond. These issues are included in the underground section for the sake of consistency.

Click on the Guide to Browsing button or visit the Features section to learn about the topic of classifying genres of comic books and related publications.

Comixjoint Continues
To Make Progress!

Comixjoint.com was officially launched last summer and is making progress towards completion of the underground archives of the site. I am now up to section S, which has many titles and many long-running series. But at least now I have completed section R, including all 31 issues of Rip Off Comix.

The Rip Off Comix reviews introduce some new elements to Comixjoint, including a lightbox feature that allows viewers to click and view the back cover artwork and certain interior pages (like a table of contents) without having to leave the original review page. This is a component that I'm hoping to add to all of the review pages in the future. Try it out on any comic review beginning with Rip Off Comix and see if you like it!

Comixjoint.com has already had over 500,000 page views with 250 more page views occurring every day. Not that those numbers are all that impressive. It only puts Comixjoint.com in the top 10 million websites in the world. Then again, there are over 644 million active websites in the world, so maybe we're not doing so bad after all.

I continue to get comic creators and publishers contacting me to provide me with additional publishing history and to compliment the site. They've given me so much information, it will be tough to get everything updated, but I'm working on it.

There are over 2,700 pages up on the site and I still have about 300 pages to go before completing the Underground Comix section. After finishing the underground section, I will move on to the sections devoted to alternative comics, small press comics and books and magazines. By the time I'm done, there will be over 10,000 pages on the site.

Stay tuned to this home page to see future updates, which I hope to make more frequently, as well as posts on the Forum, which now has over 20 members. Comixjoint has some things in the works with Dan Fogel, including the new Underground Comix Price and Grading Guide and a new email newsletter that will be promoting all things underground!

We've still got a long way to go before achieving all of the goals of this site. Feel free to send comments to me at msteven@comixjoint.com.