CREEM Magazine was founded in Detroit's Cass Corridor in 1969, two years after Jann Wenner's Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco. The second issue of CREEM featured a cover illustrated by R. Crumb, who'd arrived in San Francisco two years earlier and quickly made a name for himself with his Zap comics. With editors like Lester Bangs at the helm, CREEM kept up the harshest rock criticism throughout the '70s and 80s, at times making Rolling Stone look like a sell-out to Hollywood and the music industry.