ZAP COMIX #2 ! ! !. Zap Comix #2. 2nd Printing / August 1968 / 52 pages / Apex Novelties Zap Comix is justly lauded for changing the comic-book paradigm. The author's wife and friends hawked this to hippies on Haight Street in 1968. No other publication had a fraction of the impact that Robert Crumb's Zap Comix #1 had when it came out in San Francisco on February 25, 1968. In the spring of '68, Crumb showed up on Griffin's front porch and asked him to contribute to Zap Comix. Griffin suggested his friend Victor Moscoso would be another rock poster artist who'd be interested in the comics medium. Griffin showed Moscoso Zap #1 and Moscoso was floored. "I saw potential in it that I wasn't seeing up to that point," Moscoso said. "I was ready for it." Moscoso led the way to forming a legal partnership with Crumb, Wilson and Griffin and registering Zap as a trademark. From that point forward, all decisions about the comic book were made as a collective, with each member wielding veto power on future contributors. Robert Crumb, Rick Griffin, Victor Moscoso, S. Clay Wilson. With thanks to comixjoint.com for their hard work in documenting these amazing pieces of art.

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