Authored by Dr. Jeremy Guida –  Many authors, publishers, and readers of underground papers understood these periodicals as alternatives to what they considered mainstream news sources (what they eventually came to call the “aboveground press”: network television news, daily newspapers, national magazines). The dailies covered the war in Vietnam, racism, and youthfulRead More

Authored by Dr. Jeremy Guida – This is the third in a series of three blog posts about women in the Underground Press. See post #1 in the series for an introduction to the topic. Liza Williams – Liza Williams began authoring a column in the Los Angeles Free Press inRead More

Authored by Dr. Jeremy Guida – This is the second in a series of three blog posts about women in the Underground Press. See post #1 in the series for an introduction to the topic.   Elfrida Rivers – “Elfrida Rivers” was a pen-name for well-known science-fiction author Marion Zimmer Bradley. RiversRead More

Authored by Dr. Jeremy Guida –  By most accounts, the first-generation of underground papers were overwhelmingly misogynistic. These papers began publication between 1964 and 1967, just before the second-wave of feminism had fully taken hold. Even though most papers were socially progressive with regard to the war in Vietnam and racism, theRead More

Authored by Dr. Jeremy Guida –  Ron Cobb is one of the most celebrated cartoonists of the underground press. His cartoons and drawings were syndicated in underground papers all over the country. They (usually brilliantly) express Cobb’s perspectives on war, race, poverty, police, ecology, and the characteristically countercultural fear of excessive technologicalRead More