Alright, so here’s a hot comic from Canada’s underground which, as I write this, is selling for $156 on ebay. Completely produced by David Stewart Geary, or Dave Geary, the comic focuses primarily on beer and features much of the same bawdy tones as many other comix of its time. Geary was another master of the Underground comix age in Canada, producing other titles such as Gopher Freedom and Fleshapoids.

Definitely some mature content, and I have to tell an anecdote. Inside the front cover in the indicia, there is what I assume to be a purposeful “typo”. This typo asserts that the comic was published by Public Pubications, and not Public Publications. I laughed, which I’m sure was the intent of the writer. The funnier still was the entry made in the old finding aid. The person who went through this collection before me did not put down a publisher! There’s no way they could have missed this, and it’s blasphemy that they put nothing. What I assume happened was that they couldn’t cross check it, and rather than embarrassingly putting down what was there, they put nothing at all.

Published in Saskatoon in September of 1971, the heart of the Underground comix era, Geary did put out two more issues after this one. Here are the titles from Beer Comix #1:

• Chimo Queen of the Ritz in Love’s Labours
• You Betcha
• Eco Tunes and Murky Maladies
• I Love My Frog
• Goony Bunny answers that Age Old Question, “Is it Sex or is it Lust?”
• Things to Do: “How to Get on Everybody’s Nerves”
• Dream of the Rave Beer Fiend
• Love on the Slopes: A Shelly James Ture Romance Adventure
• A Beer Comix Vignette
• Metropolitan Comix
• Chimo Queen of the Ritz
• Lurid Pap Comix
• Goony Bunny the Philosopher Rabbit
• Stark, Scary and Lustful
• A New Era Dawns in Agadir-Morocco