Artist Craig Yoe returns to underground comix after 50 years for a ‘deeply personal look at art and life’s lunacy’

The US underground comix movement of the 1970s was a wild and agile space where anything was possible, dominated by the style of Robert Crumb. At the same time Craig Yoe drew one ‘comix’, Sammy Saved and Al Most, with a cover coloured by Zap Comix’s surf artist Rick Griffin. Artist Craig Yoe is back with a new ‘comix’ style book, called WOMAN & MAN+, after 50 years away.

After success with Sammy Saved and Al Most, Craig went on to work as creative director for Jim Henson and the Muppets, Disney, Nickelodeon, and MTV. But now he’s back with a new book 50 years in the making that reignites the style and freedom of the ’70s underground comix scene. WOMAN & MAN+ is a ferociously surreal autobiographical comic that’s being crowdfunded on Kickstarter.

WOMAN & MAN+ reads like a visual diary of the artist’s life; a humorous scurry into the mind of a comic creative that covers sex, horror and the drama of life as a hippy artist on the move in a funny and wordless way. (If you keen on launching your own book, read our feature ‘creating your own indie comic‘.)

Craig comments: “The book has been with me for a long time and in the countries I’ve lived. Its secret origin was in NYC, pages were first drawn in Berlin, it continued in Spain’s Canary Islands, and was consummated here in the Philippines,” said Yoe. “It’s the culmination of a lifetime of studying cartooning history and my deeply personal look at comics, art–and life’s lunacy.”