May 5: Mr. Natural, the soon to be ubiquitous underground comix counterculture icon, makes his first appearance in the premiere issue of Yarrowstalks.

Qiu has been recognized as a counterculture icon, and a two-volume set of her diaries was published posthumously in 2007.

His work was praised by such counterculture icons as William S. Burroughs and Terry Southern.

Think of Abbie Hoffman or Jerry Rubin, yesteryear's counterculture icons, and imagine them as Secretary of State today.

David Barnett: Thanks partly to his miserable end 40 years ago, Kerouac has lost some of his lustre as a counterculture icon.

Manhattan is the semi-biographical tale of 1960s counterculture icon Edie Sedgwick.

This year Mr. Heston, the outspoken conservative, offsets Mr. Dylan, the counterculture icon.

Manhattan a semi-biographical Cult Film tale of 1960s counterculture icon Edie Sedgwick as one of Andy Warhol's Superstars.

The trial and protests had made him into a counterculture icon and his Nikkatsu films became quite popular at midnight screenings, playing to "packed audiences who wildly applauded."

Squeezed into the middle is the reason to visit: a small historical survey of the art colony that put Woodstock, N.Y., on the map decades before it became a counterculture icon.