Down Underground Comix edited by Phil Pinder

November 1983, no. 56

Penguin, 144pp, $7.95 pb

Down Underground Comix edited by Phil Pinder

November 1983, no. 56

During the 1970s, when Nation Review was a newspaper and the Labor Party was fair dinkum, this country spawned cartoonists like mushrooms in a paddock where cows have been defecating in a grand manner. The Vietnam war was on, but that didn’t stop the Melbourne Cup or the Grand Final, and it didn’t improve the economy as expected either.

We found lovely ways to get rid of some frightening chemical wastes, i.e., we tipped them on Asian forests: all the better to see you with.

Bruce Pascoe

Bruce Pascoe is an award-winning writer and a Yuin and Bunurong man. His books include Dark Emu, Book of the Year at the 2016 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. He is on the board of First Languages Australia, Black Duck Foods, and is Professor of Indigenous Knowledge at UTS. He was 2018 Dreamtime Person of the Year. He first wrote for ABR in 1979.