Optimism of Youth

The Underground Work of Jack Jackson

• Author(s): Jack Jackson,
• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Pages: 117
• ISBN_10: 1560970677
  ISBN_13: 9781560970675
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Comics & Graphic Novels / General , Fiction / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Reference ,

Description:... 'Optimism of Youth' collects 14 of Jackson's (a.k.a. "Jaxon") short comix tales from the early 1970s underground comics scene. These comics originally appeared in title such as Skull, Slow Death, Grim Wit and Tales of the Leather Nun. Jackson was there at the birth of the underground comix scene and had actually self-published a collection of his college comics strips as God Nose in 1964, before taking a hiatus from cartooning, diving back in with the stories that fill this collection