Rip Off Press

Rip Off Press
Founded1969
FoundersFred Todd, Dave Moriaty, Gilbert Shelton, Jack Jackson
Headquarters locationSan Francisco (1969–1987)
Auburn, California (1987–present)
Publication typesComics
Nonfiction topicsPolitics, Recreational drugs
Fiction genresUnderground comix
ImprintsIguana Comics[1] (changed to Magnecom in 1993)[2]
Official websitewww.ripoffpress.com

Rip Off Press Inc. is a comic book mail order retailer and distributor, better known as the former publisher of adult-themed series like The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Rip Off Comix, as well as many other seminal publications from the underground comix era. Founded in 1969 in San Francisco by four friends from Austin, Texas — cartoonists Gilbert Shelton and Jack Jackson, and Fred Todd and Dave Moriaty — Rip Off Press is now run in Auburn, California, by Todd.

Rip Off Press is notable for being the first company to publish the fourth edition of the Principia Discordia, a Discordian religious text written by Gregory Hill and Kerry Thornley. It was also an early publisher of a booklet on drug manufacturing, Psychedelic Chemistry.

  1. ^ "Newswatch: Show Them Your Lizard", The Comics Journal #160 (June 1993), p. 17.
  2. ^ "Newswatch: Iguana Comics x 2," The Comics Journal #161 (Aug. 1993).