Editing Counterculture (section)

== Literature ==
The counterculture of the 1960s and early 1970s generated its own unique brand of notable literature, including comics and cartoons, and sometimes referred to as the [[underground press]]. In the United States, this includes the work of [[Robert Crumb]] and [[Gilbert Shelton]], and includes [[Mr. Natural (comics)|Mr. Natural]]; [[Keep on Truckin' (comics)|Keep on Truckin']]; ''[[Fritz the Cat]]''; [[Fat Freddy's Cat]]; [[Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers]]; the album cover art for ''[[Cheap Thrills (Big Brother and the Holding Company album)|Cheap Thrills]]''; and in several countries contributions to ''[[International Times]]'', ''[[The Village Voice]]'', and [[Oz (magazine)|''Oz'' magazine]]. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, these comics and magazines were available for purchase in [[head shop]]s along with items like beads, incense, cigarette papers, tie-dye clothing, [[Blacklight paint|Day-Glo]] posters, books, etc.

During the late 1960s and early 1970s, some of these shops selling hippie items also became cafés where hippies could hang out, chat, smoke [[cannabis]], read books, etc., e.g. [[Gandalf's Garden]] in the [[King's Road]], London, which also published a magazine of the same name.<ref>[http://www.sunrise-press.co.uk/Sunrise_Press/A_psychedelic_trip_around_London_page_1.html ''London a Map of the Underground''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120825021903/http://www.sunrise-press.co.uk/Sunrise_Press/A_psychedelic_trip_around_London_page_1.html |date=August 25, 2012 }}</ref> Another such hippie/anarchist bookshop was [[psychedelic mushroom|Mushroom]] Books, tucked away in the [[Lace Market]] area of [[Nottingham]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19:keith-leonard-1948-2009&catid=2:blog&Itemid=11|title=The Sparrows' Nest Library and Archive - The Sparrows' Nest Library and Archive|website=www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk|access-date=June 20, 2010|archive-date=January 7, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140107161016/http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19:keith-leonard-1948-2009&catid=2:blog&Itemid=11|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/Founder-radical-bookshop-dies/story-12181832-detail/story.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120527014115/http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/Founder-radical-bookshop-dies/story-12181832-detail/story.html|url-status=dead|title=Keith Leonard, who co-founded Mushroom Bookshop, has died &#124; This is Nottingham|access-date=November 7, 2019|archive-date=May 27, 2012}}</ref>