Comix (which are typically understood as distinct from comics in that
they intend a mature audience) got their start in the 1960s. Our
earliest evidence of the word "comix" used as a generic term dates to
1969, but it had begun appearing in the titles of specific works a
little earlier than that: one example is the title of R. Crumb's highly
influential Zap Comix, first published in 1968. The kind of
alteration that changed "comics" to "comix" isn't a 20th century
phenomenon: the word "pox," as in "chicken pox," began as "pocks" but
has been spelled with an "x" since around 1475. A similar kind of
alteration, though in this case going from a simpler spelling to a less
intuitive one, is the word "phat," which is most likely a variation of
"fat." "Phat" dates to 1963.
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