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Last Gasp is one of the largest and oldest publishers and purveyors of underground books and comics in the world. Over the years we have published, and in some cases brought to light, some of the most respected and talented artists working today, including R. Crumb, Justin Green, Bill Griffith, Mark Ryden, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Frank Kozik, Todd Schorr, Winston Smith, Spain, Robert Williams, and countless others. Today, we publish 12-20 new titles per year, focusing on 鈥榣owbrow鈥� and 鈥榩op surrealist鈥� artists, as well as graphic novels and pop culture titles. We also distribute all sorts of weird 鈥榥鈥� wonderful subversive literature, graphic novels, tattoo, and art books, supplying them to bookstores and art galleries on six continents. 

Ron Turner founded Last Gasp in 1970. Our first publication, Slow Death Funnies #1, came out on the first Earth Day, April 15, 1970. Subsequent comics included the all-women鈥檚 comic It Ain鈥檛 Me Babe and Skull Comics. Turner鈥檚 enthusiasm for underground comics鈥搃n particular their autobiographical aspect鈥揾as been the driving force behind many groundbreaking publications. Last Gasp published Justin Green鈥檚 highly acclaimed confessional Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary in 1972, a book that became an inspiration to many artists now working in the autobiographical style. 鈥淎rt Spiegelman, who won the only Pulitzer Prize for cartooning, has said he would never have started to do the autobiographical story of his family (in the graphic novel Maus) unless Justin had done it first. And Robert Crumb said the same thing,鈥� said Turner.