#(late 70's-80's self published alternative comix scene)

[heedra]

current library haul btw

#comics #going into elfquest with no expectations save that im really interested in the era and niche it hails from #(late 70's-80's self published alternative comix scene) #and ptsd radio im really looking forward to bc the same author wrote seeds of anxiety #which really scared me when i read it

[magspag]

I saw a thing that was wondering why people would spell 'folks' as 'folx' since the orginal was already gender neutral

At the end of the 1960s and te start of the 1970s there was a lot of pornographic comic books, and they spelled it as 'comix' with an X for X-Rated because that's how the 70s were.

Once the porn had established a market for adult focused comic, there was a bunch of other underground comics in the 70s and the X at the end became a signifier of the alternative press instead of a porn thing.

Two other big things in underground media were becoming huge in the 70s. Star Trek fandom mailing lists following the end of the show with serious compilation magazines patterned after 1967's Spockanalia, and punk rock hitting with its own scene sheets distributed in record stores to keep people aware of what was going on.

In 1982, Mike Gunderloy sought to create a periodically published directory of as many of the smaller self published periodicals as he could, mostly Sci-Fi and literary stuff at first because that's what he was into and connecting all of it into what would later be known as Zine Culture.

So the X at the end crept into zine culture from the comix scene, and you saw it used to make punk plural with phrases like "punx not dead" and "American HArdcore Up The Punx" and folks got turned into folx in the late 80s and the 90s (except in Chicago where it was used to distinguish just folks in general from the Folks Nation street gang as early as 75)

Whole lot of online queer culture has connections to riot grrl and riot grrl is very much a part of Zine Culture so that's how 'folx' got its way onto social media

#history bullshit #riot grrrl #zine culture #folx