Rip Off Press

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Rip Off Press

Founded	1969
Founders	Fred Todd, Dave Moriaty, Gilbert Shelton, Jack Jackson
Headquarters location	San Francisco (1969–1987) Auburn, California (1987–present)
Publication types	Comics
Nonfiction topics	Politics, Recreational drugs
Fiction genres	Underground comix
Imprints	Iguana Comics[1] (changed to Magnecom in 1993)[2]
Official website	www.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.