The Twentynine Palms Book Festival returns November 13-15 2025
SEX! DRUGS! FEMINISM! COUNTERCULTURE!
This is a groundbreaking 1970s underground feminist comic book (republished in 2016) which paved the way to Lena Dunham, Amy Schumer, and Brood City.
Teenage runaway plumpie Pudge hitchhikes to San Francisco in the early 1970s with a dread secret: she is still a virgin. Desperate to solve her dilemma, she launches into the vibrant circus of urban life – street protests, self-help clinics, burglary, job hunting and midnight pizzas. A feminist journey fraught with angst and anchovies.
Lee Marrs' comics influenced feminism, queer theory, and visual culture in the 1980s.
B & W interiors • color cover • 7″X10″ • 140 pages• Published by MarrsBooks
The copy is signed by Lee Mars who was a guet author at the 2025 Twentynine palms Book Festival.
Lee Mars was one of few underground cartoonists to also work for mainstream comics publishers, and one of the first women to work for DC Comics and Marvel Comics simultaneously. She was one of the "founding mommies" of the Wimmen's Comix collective.
