Dugan under ground
Subtitle: a novel
By: Tom De Haven.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
Subjects: Comic books, strips, etc. -- Authorship -- Fiction.; Cartoonists -- Fiction.; Hippies -- Fiction.; San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "It's 1967, the Summer of Love. Roy Looby, a gifted young cartoonist, throws off the stifling embrace of his mentor, the legendary strip man Ed Biggs, and heads west to join the dropouts and musicians in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury. In the reckless spirit of the times, Looby creates the Imp Eugene, an angry, libidinous comic-book character who is a far cry from Biggs's signature figure, Derby Dugan - the cheerful icon of a more innocent and optimistic generation.

Just like his real-life counterpart, the hippie cartoonist R. Crumb, Looby is soon celebrated and vilified for his creation. And then he disappears, rumored to have lost his mind during the drug-fueled creation of a comic-strip masterpiece."--BOOK JACKET.