Green recounted "a strong energy" that "Binky Brown" drew from his readership, the first significant response he got from his work. The story has had a wide influence on underground and alternative comics, where its self-mocking and confessional approach has inspired numerous cartoonists to expose intimate and embarrassing details of their lives. Under the influence of "Binky Brown", in 1972 Aline Kominsky published her first strip, the autobiographical "Goldie: A Neurotic Woman" in "Wimmen's Comix" . Other contemporary underground cartoonists were soon to incorporate confessional autobiography into their work. Robert Crumb followed the same year with "The Confessions of R. Crumb" and continued with numerous other such strips. Art Spiegelman, who had seen "Binky Brown" in mid-creation in 1971, went as far as to state that "without "Binky Brown" there would be no "Maus""—Spiegelman's most prominent work. The same year as "Binky Brown"s publication, Green asked Spiegelman to contribute a three-page strip to the first issue of "Funny ", which Green edited and was published by Apex Novelties. Spiegelman delivered the three-page "Maus" in which Nazi cats persecute Jewish mice, inspired by his father's experiences in the Auschwitz concentration camp; years later he revisited the theme in the graphic novel of the same name. Comics critic Jared Gardner asserts that, while underground was associated with countercultural iconoclasm, the movement's most enduring legacy was to be autobiography.