Tijuana Bibles: Art and Wit in America's Forbidden Funnies, 1930s-1950s

A single-volume survey from the Erotic Print Society, Tijuana Bibles: Art and Wit in America's Forbidden Funnies, 1930s-1950s (2006) collects and contextualizes the clandestine, crudely drawn eight-page pamphlets that circulated in mid-20th-century America. These bootleg comics, notorious for their explicit parody of popular newspaper strips and movie stars, are examined here as a raw, underground art form and a revealing artifact of Depression-era and postwar humor. The book's significance lies in its serious, scholarly treatment of a previously dismissed genre, preserving a vital piece of American subversive pop culture.