Counterculture in anglophone tradition and comics and underground style as subcultural politics in L-Manyak and Lombak magazines (1996-2009)

This thesis is about a research on the unusual but popular L-Manyak and Lombak magazines, which were positioned within the Turkish humor press but could not be sufficiently associated with the social transformations of the period. These magazines do not have a political appearance at first glance; there is no political agenda on the cover or in the content. In their content, they contain provocative radical-marginal themes such as funny, vulgar violence, obscenity and slang that cannot be accepted by everyone. The fact that these publications, which use mainstream printing distribution channels, print tens of thousands of copies, and are accessible from every newsstand, were published in a country like Turkey without even using a warning phrase, makes this situation even more interesting. Generally speaking, these magazines, with their dimensions such as hatred of politicians, opposition to didactic authorities such as parents-teachers-dervish, and mockery of social sensitivities, make us think that politics here should be thought differently. These publications, by their very existence, oppose the majority values, human relations and their order. In this study, it is claimed that the apolitical attitude and extraordinary style reflected by these publications, which are popular examples of the school and turned into the last mainstream, are actually antipolitical and underground. In this context, the research aimed to search for the indicators of the underground style that can be read in youth cultures and comic books with the Anglophone counter-culture movements in these magazines and to evaluate their existence in the social context. Thus, it is aimed to interpret these indicators, which can be interpreted politically through theoretical approaches such as 'rebellion with style' (Hebdige), 'consent production function of the media' (Hall) and 'normalization strategy of the power' (Foucault), as symptoms of some social transformations.