Underground comix were written by and for the 1960s counter-culture and psychedelic movement, and a number of independent comics of this era were humorous (and unquestionably adult-oriented) stories about hippies and rebels who enjoyed sex and drugs, while putting up with persecution by evil police officers.

also see

• alternative comics
• underground newspapers

• Adventures of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers (Gilbert Shelton)
• Air Pirates Funnies (Dan O'Neill, others. Sparked a famous copyright lawsuit from Disney)
• Arcade (anthology edited by Bill Griffith and Art Spiegelman)
• Bijou Funnies (Chicago-based anthology, Jay Lynch and others)
• Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary (Justin Green)
• Bogeyman (Rory Hayes and others)
• Coochie Cootie's Men's Comics (Robert Williams)
• Corn Fed (Kim Deitch)
• Hytone, Despair, Big Ass, XYZ (Robert Crumb)
• It Ain't Me Babe (anthology edited by Trina Robbins)
• Tales from the Tube (Rick Griffin)
• Wimmen's Comix (anthology edited by the Wimmen's Comix Collective)
• Zap Comix (Robert Crumb, Spain Rodriguez, S. Clay Wilson, Rick Griffin, Robert Williams, Victor Moscoso)