![]() ![]() Moskowitz soon got out on bail and went back to his store, where he commented, "They wanted to get me because of Snatch magazine. Moskowitz was then arrested in his bookstore on the charge of selling "lewd and obscene material" and police seized several different "obscene" publications, including Zap #2, Horseshit Magazine, Ron Cobb's Mah Fellow Americans, and gun-wielding feminist Valerie Solanas' SCUM Manifesto. Unfortunately, he also sold a copy to a Berkeley police officer, who went to the local D.A.'s office and obtained an arrest warrant from a judge. Moe Moskowitz, reported that he sold 350 copies of Snatch #1 in three days. The first print run of the comic was nearly bought out by Moe's Books in Berkeley and the book store owner, Crumb and Wilson easily achieved Snatch's objective to shock to its audience, but also, perhaps unwittingly, unleashed one of the most influential comic books in history. Where Zap #1 and #2 were mostly fun-loving hippie comics with a few dashes of kinky behavior, Snatch #1 was wall-to-wall twisted perversion. Nearly every page oozed with depictions of cocks, cunts, boobs and asses of all ages engaging in deviant behavior. Crumb and Wilson produced Snatch Comics #1 in just a few weeks and Don Donahue published it in the fall of '68, though he strategically omitted his Apex Novelties imprint and all copyright information in the book (as well as the two Snatch books to follow).Īt 5 by 7 inches, Snatch #1 may have appeared innocuous, but it made up for its diminutive size with explosive content. Wilson, the leading provocateur of the Zap Collective, quickly jumped on board. He started doing an imitation of one, only raunchier." As Snatch Comics publisher Don Donahure explained Crumb's inspiration "They were just corny little cartoon magazines, pocket-sized. Crumb had already been toying with the idea of lampooning the bawdy little joke and cartoon digests that were sold to men on newstands and military bases. Rather than feeling chastened, Crumb and Wilson decided to demonstrate just how far they could go. ![]() Many were outraged by Robert Crumb's use of racist imagery to depict a sexually insatiable African junglewoman named Angelfood McSpade.Ĭriticism came fast and hard, and it came from all corners, with outcries from the left and the right that Zap had gone too far. Clay Wilson's depiction of one man cutting off the tip of another man's penis and eating it. Even some of the counterculture radicals who saw Zap #2 were disgusted by S. Somewhere around the end of that summer, the even-more-daring Zap #2 hit the streets and many of those blown minds went into shock. In the summer of 1968, the trailblazing Zap Comix #1 caused many minds to be blown in major cities across America. ![]()
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