TIJUANA BIBLE STUDIES by Sam & Janet Evening

In the pages of Other Scenes, a New York City-based underground newspaper in the late ’60s/early ’70s, The Mad Peck enjoyed the freedom to explore such taboo subjects as the notorious Tijuana bibles, pornographic mini-comics that were sold under the counter and hidden under many a mattress. Smartly and wryly scribed, Peck’s study looked at two gangster-themed booklets from the Depression era as well as a hilarious Vietnam War era strip feature a parody of popular comic strip characters. Sam & Janet Evening was an amusing pen-name Peck adopted, as he was loathe to put his freedom at risk for “promoting porn” (though the paper still credited him by name!)