The Fan Free Funnies were an illustrative example of the growing influence of "underground comix" on young comic artists in the early 1970s, when a number of Fan District residents and VCU fine arts students began creating comic art inspired by the popular underground comix scene. In the spring of 1973, VCU's student newspaper The Commonwealth Times took advantage of this phenomenon and produced three issues of an all-comics black-and-white tabloid called Fan Free Funnies. All three issues are presented here in their entirety.
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Welcome to the VCU Libraries Digital Collections. Here we present materials primarily from our Special Collections and Archives, ranging in subject matter from African American history in Virginia to Richmond's past and present, from the comic book and cartooning arts to the history of VCU itself. Collections are presented in a variety of formats, including photographs, art, text, video, and audio.