image © Carol Kossack

Cartoonist David Miller has recently started up a new website devoted to archiving the photography work of the late Clay Geerdes. For those unfamiliar, Geerdes was also an author, a cartoonist and the publisher of the Comix World / Comix Wave line of newave mini-comics. He is an extremely important figure in the history of mini-comics and photography was just one of the ways he documented the underground comix scene.

The sample above is of Mad Magazine's William Gaines. Other subjects at the site include R. Crumb, Spain, S. Clay Wilson, Harvey Kurtzman, Carl Barks, Charles Schulz, Rory Hayes and so many more (with many more to come).

Check it out for yourself at: http://comixcomics.blogspot.com/

For more info on Clay Geerdes, please refer to this obituary written by longtime collaborator Par Holman.

A fraction of the hundreds of minis Geerdes published can be browsed in the Poopsheet Shop.