country founded publications genre article_title name founder headquarters
united states of america 1968 comics underground comix don donahue
 apex novelties don donahue san francisco , california
don donahue

don donahue -lrb- 1942 -- october 27 , 2010 -rrb- was a comic book publisher , operating under the name apex novelties , one of the instigators of the underground comix movement in the 1960s .
in san francisco in 1968 , donahue traded his hi-fi tape player to poet charles plymell to publish the first issue of robert crumb 's `` zap comix '' on his printing press .
donahue later purchased the equipment and founded apex novelties , which published numerous influential comics from that movement , including work by s. clay wilson , kim deitch , shary flenniken , justin green , bill griffiths , spain rodriguez , gilbert shelton , art spiegelman .
he was known for publishing material by radicals , including the symbionese liberation army -lrb- best known for kidnapping patty hearst -rrb- .
the partner of cartoonist dori seda , he inherited the rights to her work following her death at the age of 37 , and published `` dori stories '' , a compilation of her comics .
donahue died of cancer on october 27 , 2010 .
