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THE BEATS a graphic history, Harvey Pekar, Tegneserie
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In The Beats: A Graphic History, those who were mad to live have come back to life through artwork as vibrant as the Beat movement itself. Told by the comic legend Harvey Pekar, his frequent artistic collaborator Ed Piskor, and a range of artists and writers, including the feminist comic creator Trina Robbins and the Mad magazine artist Peter Kuper, The Beats takes us on a wild tour of a generation that, in the face of mainstream American conformity and conservatism, became known for its determined uprootedness, aggressive addictions, and startling creativity and experimentation.What began among a small circle of friends in New York and San Francisco during the late 1940s and early 1950s laid the groundwork for a literary explosion, and this striking anthology captures the storied era in all its incarnations-from the Benzedrine-fueled antics of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs to the painting sessions of Jay DeFeo's disheveled studio, from the jazz hipsters to the beatnik chicks, from Chicago's College of Complexes to San Francisco's famed City Lights bookstore. Snapshots of lesser-known poets and writers sit alongside frank and compelling looks at the Beats' most recognizable faces. What emerges is a brilliant collage of-and tribute to-a generation, in a form and style that is as original as its subject.
The more time that passes, the greater the Beat writers become swamped in what preceded and followed their mid 1950s to early 1960s peak. However, as Paul Buhle and Harvey Pekar’s introduction notes, they introduced lasting new ideas about art and culture, while resetting the boundaries of what was acceptable.
While others contribute, Pekar writes most of the book, while Ed Piskor draws over half of it starting with biographies of Beat’s holy trilogy: Jack Kerouac, Allan Ginsberg and William Burroughs. Although their lives are intimately entwined, Pekar writes a separate biography for each, although two are bri
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