RESPECTED AUTHOR: Doherty is a journalist and author who has spent years documenting subversive subcultures and contributing to comics criticism. He has served as a judge for the Eisner Awards, and his writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Mother Jones, USA Today, Slate, and Salon.UNIQUE IN THE MARKET:Dirty Pictures is the first and only narrative history of Underground Comix and the first book to discuss the breadth of comics creators in such detail.BUILT-IN FAN BASE: R. Crumb, Spain Rodriguez, Trina Robbins, Art Spiegelman, and the other creators included in this history have legions of fans who have followed their work for decades.STRONG CATEGORY: Narrative books on comics have a robust readership with titles such as Marvel Comics: The Untold Story, Comic Book Nation, The Ten-Cent Plague, and Why Comics?: From Underground to Everywhere garnering attention both critically and from the comics fandom at large.