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“ZAp” beFore ZAp
1 Rodriguez drew “Zap Zap Comix” before he started signing his work “Spain” and before he joined the Zap crew. From New York City’s East Village Other, April 5, 1968 (about five weeks after Zap’s debut in San Francisco). 2 Griffin was also “zapping” around in the pre-Zap days. This page appeared in the 1961 book The Surfing Funnies. 3 Before he drew Zap #0, Crumb doodled ideas for the name and logo of both the comic book and its publishing imprint, as these drawings from his sketchbooks reveal. He was playing with “Zap” as a title at least as early as 1965.
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