Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design

In his effort to separate RAWfrom underground comix, Spiegelman
featured the masters of the genre and published new stories by Robert
Crumb, Kim Deitch, Justin Green, and Bill Griffith. He wanted to provide
a forum for illustrators, too, but most of those he invited failed to produce.
The notable exception was Sue Coe, who provided some of the most
strident polemical visual commentary in RAW, as well as two RAWOne-
Shot books,How to Commit Suicide in South Africa, a visual indictment of
the effects of apartheid, and X, a paean to Malcolm X.
In the time since Raw Books and Graphics was conceived, more
RAW-inspired magazines were published.RAWitself has been seriously
analyzed for pushing the limits of the form, and for reviving the nascent
intelligence of the American comic strip. This cottage publishing entity
that Spiegelman and Mouly invested their hearts into has, arguably, done
more to awaken Americans to the integrity of the comic strip than all the
efforts of comics writers, artists, and producers since comic strips began in
the American newspapers almost one hundred years ago.