Nasty Tales - David Huxley

Headpress has been instrumental in shedding light on some of the more obscure outposts of the comics world for a while now, with features on Antonio Ghura, Skywald comics, and Maxon Crumb to name but a few. This title is the second in Headpress publishing outfit Critical Vision’s ‘comix history’ list, entitled ‘Primal-spinal’; the first is Stephen Sennitt’s ‘Ghastly Horror’, a history of horror comics. The subject matter covered here, Sennitt’s excellence as a writer notwithstanding, makes this volume if anything even more of a must read than the first – while the story of American underground comics is familiar ...