Underground comix reproduce the concerns of the 20th century 2nd half counterculture: experimentation in many possessions, drug-altered online prescription drugs without a prescription states of mind, denial of almost any sexual taboos, and scorn of the society establishment. The spelling ‘comix’ was set up to distinguish these new style publications from typical ‘comics’. The concept of comic books outside the majority was invented by Harvey Kurtzman as he used the title “Comics Go Underground” on the newspaper-format cover of Mad issue 16 in October, 1954. The expression ‘underground comics’ was created by writer-editor Bhob Stewart during a panel debate at the July 23, 1966, New York comics meeting convention. On a team with Ted White and Archie Goodwin, Stewart predicted the birth of a innovative category of comic book: “I want to say that just as mainstream movies prompted underground films, I think the same thing is going to happen with comics. You will have underground comics just as you have had underground films. This would be more like James Joyce in comic book form. You can see the beginning of this in some of the cartoon panels that have been appearing in the East Village Other.”