1.   During the conference Eisner traced his own path through comics, from strips to books to underground comics to graphic novels.

2.   Fans of underground comics artist extraordinaire Robert Crumb have always enjoyed the brutal honesty, outrageous fantasy and cartoon obsessiveness of his intricately drawn work.

3.   Hipsters packed the Mock Cafe on Valencia to check out a lineup of local underground stand-up comics.

4.   It was not until a decade later that underground comics took off.

5.   Women cartoonists have had a boost from a general explosion of interest that is driving parts of the comic underground into the daylight of mainstream pop culture.