Comic book confidential

I am really enjoying comic book confidential program that we are watching in class, and I have not slept through any of it yet, which I shows that it is praise worthy by itself. Comic book confidential has not only been an entertaining watch it has also infored us much about different ages and types of comic books, especially the comix scene which we read about in Arie Kaplan, but it did not go into it with as much depth as Kaplan. The comix scene seems very interesting because it set all the typical conventions of traditional comic books aside and they made different sorts of works about all topics from the comics of the past. It also comes as no surprise that the creators and consumers of these comix had a strong overlap with the hippy subculture in the 60s. This brings up the interesting question about whether it was the art that made the influence of the culture of the time, or it was the culture that influenced the art. There probably is not one answer to be a definitive answer to this question, but from a lay persons perspective with very little knowledge on this particular subject, I think it was probably the hippy subculture that came first and then that influenced the comix scene.