SEPT. 17 SHOWCASE HIGHLIGHTS UNDERGROUND COMIX COLLECTION AT MASC

PULLMAN, Wash., Sept. 15 -- Washington State University issued the following news release:

Washington State University graduate student Cecil Decker spent a month this past summer working with a collection of "underground comix" in Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) that were part of a movement starting in the 1960s to preserve creative freedom from efforts to censor the content of comics.

Decker will hold an Underground Comix Showcase from noon-2 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 17, in Terrell Library's ground-floor MASC reading room to give a short talk and share selected works from theJoseph M. Shea Comix and Small Press Collection, 1962-2010.

Cecil Decker

An English literature master's student, Decker assisted with catalog...