Last Gasp

About

Last Gasp is a San Francisco publisher of underground books, comics and graphic novels, founded by Ron Turner in 1970, with its first title Slow Death Funnies #1 released on Earth Day that year. The catalogue spans lowbrow and pop surrealist artists such as R. Crumb, Justin Green, Bill Griffith, Robert Williams, Spain Rodriguez, Trina Robbins and Todd Schorr, plus the Keiji Nakazawa manga Barefoot Gen, and the company releases 12-20 new titles a year. It runs a Shopify storefront mixing its own publications with vintage back stock and titles from other publishers, and the site states it is no …