Print Mint

The Print Mint, Inc.
Founded1965; 59 years ago (1965)
FounderDon Schenker and Alice Schenker[1]
Defunct1978 (as publisher; continued as a poster shop, Reprint Mint, which closed in 2016)
Headquarters location830 Folger Avenue, Berkeley, California, and San Francisco, California
DistributionSelf-distribution
Key peopleBob Rita and Peggy Rita
Publication typesComic books, posters
Nonfiction topicsSocial commentary, politics, environmentalism
Fiction genresUnderground comix

The Print Mint, Inc. was a major publisher and distributor of underground comix based in the San Francisco Bay Area during the genre's late 1960s-early 1970s heyday. Starting as a retailer of psychedelic posters, the Print Mint soon evolved into a publisher, printer, and distributor. It was "ground zero" for the psychedelic poster. The Print Mint was originally owned by poet Don Schenker and his wife Alice, who later partnered in the business with Bob and Peggy Rita.[2]

  1. ^ Dalzell, Tom (Feb 20, 2020). "Remembering Alice Schenker, whose Print Mint on Telegraph Avenue sparked the 1960s poster revolution". Berkeleyside.
  2. ^ "An Interview with Victor Moscoso". The Comics Journal. No. 246. Interviewed by Groth, Gary. Sep 2002.