Mah Fellow Americans": Editorial Cartoons by Ron Cobb from the Underground Press Syndicate

Los Angeles, CA: Sawyer Press, 1968. First Printing. Paperback. Very Good. 8.5" x 11" x .25. Ron Cobb. FIRST PRINTING. 5,000 copies, January, 1968. Paperback. Cover is white background with black and white cartoon illustration in red, blue, black and white lettering. Full page illustrated cartoons throughout in black and white. Cover shows rubbing, light creasing and some wear, some discoloration and foxing. Pages have evenly toned and are free from creasing and marginalia except for former owner's stamp at the top right hand corner of each recto page and the inside front and back covers. Some light discoloration on several pages. From the end pages: "The Underground Press Syndicate is a loose affiliation of newspaper publishers, its members having the privilege of reprinting articles and stories from each other as they see fit, thus circumventing 'establishment red-tape' pertaining to reprint rights, permissions, royalties, etc. Its membership, at the date of this publication, consists of the following 34 periodicals [which it lists at the bottom], whose circulations vary from a tiny one or two thousand copies to the Los Angeles Free Press's 65,000 copies weekly. (Ron Cobb is the L.A. Free Press's editorial cartoonist). In most cases, their viewpoints are markedly 'anti-establishment' since their birthright is based in a distrust of both the content and motivation of the established media; a movement of disenchantment which seems to be spreading throughout the world. Not all members of the Underground Press Syndicate, with the exception of the L. A,. Free Press, reprint Cobb each week as a regular feature, but as recognition of this talent grows, his drawings are showing up more and more frequently." A fascinating and thought-provoking piece of Americana and the Free American Press, captured from the era circa 1960's. Full refund if not satisfied.