Publication date: 1972
Review Fritz the no-good: From Fritz the cat / Ballantine Books:
Creator: R. Crumb
Publication date: 2004-03-03
Dewey code: 741
List Price: $27.00
Price: $27.00
Review Waiting For Food, Number 3: More Restaurant Placemat Drawings / Diane Pub Co:This is the third book in successful series of occasional sketches by the grandfather of American alternative comix. These sketches reveal another side- a contemplative side- to the controversial artist, renowned for his taboo-breaking satires of American society. With his intricate cross-hatching and observant line, the drawings here show Crumb as an imaginative chronicler of everyday life.
Publication date: 2005-04-15
Dewey code: 703
List Price: $25.00
Price: $32.95
Review The R. Crumb Handbook / M Q Publications:The only underground cartoonist to be accepted by the fine art world, the R. Crumb Handbook is divided into the four enemies of man: FEAR, CLARITY, POWER, OLD AGE. Working with his old drinking buddy and co-author Pete Poplaski, the four chapters are easily digested. With over 400 pages of cartoons and photographs, Crumb’s often controversially-regarded views toward Disneyland, growing up in America, hippie love, art galleries, and turning 60 are revealed. By tracing his development as a cartoonist from his tormented childhood in the 1940s through to his coming of age as an artist in the psychedelic revolution of the 1960s, Robert Crumb visually treats us to the pressures and influences that the modern mass media has on human consciousness, and includes over 80 personal photographs, and 300 images taken from personal sketchbooks and comic books, as well as fine art from museums. For the serious student of late capitalist culture and the thousands of Crumb enthusiasts everywhere this book is indispensable. From the mountains of Southern France where he currently lives and works, pop artist R. Crumb makes a grand entrance back to the publishing world with The R. Crumb Handbook. Part biography, part comic book, and part media critique, the latest Crumb book is a feast indeed. [+]In addition to numerous reprints of Crumb comic hits like Fritz the Cat and Mr. Natural, the book also features new works by Crumb, including a hilarious dialogue between the artist and his wife. (Both Crumb's wife and daughter are comic book artists. ) Fans already familiar with Crumb’s comic book work will rejoice at the glossy reprints of Crumb oil paintings and sculptures, complete with gallery-owner narratives about working with the artist. There are also record covers reprints that Crumb has drawn over the years, as well as a CD of songs by the artist’s traditional band, R. Crumb and the Cheap Suit Serenaders. But more important, the Handbook helps provide a window into the man himself. In fact the more you read The R. Crumb Handbook the more you start to understand Crumb is really a political cartoonist, challenging stereotypes, cultural norms, and the media. U. S. media in particular has had a powerful and profound impact on Crumb. Readers will learn what TV shows and books inspired Crumb, the state of comics in the 1960s versus today, the media’s effect on day-to-day life, and what other comics served as models for Crumb in his own work. Artists like Jack Davis, John Stanley, Carl Barks, and the late Will Eisner made powerful impressions on Crumb about what comics could achieve. Crumb offers up some interesting insight into comics during the Great Depression (e. g. , Dick Tracy and Superman) and explains how many of these comics mirrored the era and encouraged readers to "fight on" even during tough times. The R. Crumb Handbook is a solid piece of work, not only giving us a glimpse into the artist, but serving as a great read for old and new fans alike. -Pat Kearney Listen to an exclusive track from R. Crumb and the Cheap Suit Serenaders Read an interview with R. Crumb Exclusive Images from the R. Crumb HandbookSpoiler Alert: View at Your Own Risk! Build Your R. Crumb Library The Complete Crumb Comics Vol. 19 Complete Crumb Comics Your Vigor for Life Appalls Me: Robert Crumb Letters 1958-1977 The Life and Death of Fritz the Cat The R. Crumb Sketchbook Vol. 8: Early 1971 to Mid 1972 R. Crumb's Kafka Crumb in Other Universes Crumb (DVD) The Confessions of Robert Crumb (DVD) The R. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book.
Publication date: 1995
Review Artistic comics: A special issue made up entirely of excerpts from the secret sketchbooks of R. Crumb! / Kitchen Sink Press:
Creator: R. Crumb
Publication date: 1971
Review Mr. Natural (No. 2) / San Francisco Comic Book Company, Inc.:
Publication date: 1983
Price: $525.33
Review Plunge into the depths of despair / Last Gasp:
Publication date: 2002-02
Dewey code: 741
List Price: $18.95
Price: $89.98
Review The Complete Crumb Comics, Vol. 15: Mode O'Day / Fantagraphics Books:It's the swinging 80's period of Crumb's career now featured in the multiple award-winning Complete Crumb Comics series. The mid-1980s period of Crumb's career is compiled in this 15th volume of the series, a period that many critics consider to be the richest of Crumb's career. Anchored by Crumb's contributions to the seminal anthology Weirdo, created and edited by Crumb, this volume includes the first several appearances of classic Crumb character Mode-O-Day, the networking fashion plate that serves as a foil for some of Crumb's most biting satire about America's cultural elite. Also included are Crumb's first collaborations with the late writer Charles Bukowski, as well as several collaborations with Harvey Pekar from his autobiographical series American Splendor. The book is rounded out with a color section that includes rare album art for various jazz and blues greats, as well reproductions of his various comic book covers from this period.
Authors
- Jim Osborne
- and others
- Bill Griffith
- Jay Kinney
- Art Spiegelman
- Ned Sonntag
- Roger Brand
- Justin Green
- R. Crumb
- "Pap Schmeer" (Landon Chesney)
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1974
Review The Young Lust Reader / And/Or Press:The complete first three issues of "Young Lust" (1971-1972) , the underground Romance Comic series, edited by Bill Griffith and Jay Kinney. Foreword by Jay Kinney, Afterword by Bill Griffith. Stories and art by Bill Griffith, Jay Kinney, Art Spiegelman, "Pap Schmeer" (Landon Chesney), Roger Brand, Justin Green, Jim Osborne, Ned Sonntag, Spain Rodriguez, Nancy Griffith, R. Crumb, Gilbert Shelton, and Jay Lynch. From the back cover: "Once you have experienced YOUNG LUST you'll never be able to look at another "True Love Romances" in the eye again without cracking up. To have all three YOUNG LUSTS under one cover is almost too much to take!" - Ed Ward, City Magazine "Occasionally something comes along that too good not to mentionlike YOUNG LUST, the series of mock-sexploitation comic books that parody perfectly the picaresque sexuality of teenage female cartoon fantasies!! - Howard Smith, Village Voice "In this world there are three things we can be sure ofdebt, taxis and YOUNG LUST!!" - David Ossman, Firesign Theatre "YOUNG LUST is almost impossible to read. You get halfway through the first story when suddenly you are rolling on the floor laughing your head off! Affords the whole family endless hours of pants-pissing entertainment!!" - Dean Latimer, East Village Other B&W.
Authors
- Penn
- Teller
- Ron Warren
- Neil Gaiman
- R. Crumb
- Grace Yu Ying Smith
Dewey code: 770
List Price: $55.00
Price: $34.00
Review Gotta Have 'Em: Portraits of Women / Greybull Press:He's been called a genius and a "world-class malcontent. " R. Crumb, the visionary founder of the underground comics movement and unwilling hipster to multiple generations, celebrated for his viciously funny take on modern America, is also lauded as a draughtsman on par with Breughel. For the first time ever, his drawings of women are collected in one brilliantly offensive yet hilariously poignant volume, in chronological order, spanning the 38 years since his pen-and-ink beginnings. The usual fetishes are on display, natch-the built-from-the-ground-up body type, the lovingly fixated-upon solid thighs and buttocks-but so is Crumb's heart, on his sleeve, in the great tenderness with which he has rendered the women in his life. They're all here: his high-school crushes, his paramours, the girls and women who tormented him-and to whom he gave it right back-or who caught his eye on the street, and, of course, his wife and fiery sometime collaborator, Aline, and their daughter Sophie. Add to this his mistress of fifteen years, and you have not only a catalogue raisonna of Crumb's portraits of women but also a revealing record of a passionate life. Crumb calls it "an autobiography of sorts" and it is-these aren't just portraits of women but the most intimate portrait of Crumb's life in love.
Publication date: 2002-09
Dewey code: 741
List Price: $39.95
Price: $23.94
Review The Complete Crumb Comics, Vol. 16: The Mid-1980s, More Years of Valiant Struggle / Fantagraphics Books:The multiple award-winning The Complete Crumb Comics series—the definitive, comprehensive series reprinting the entirety of Crumb's oeuvre—enters the mid-1980s with this 16th volume, a period that many critics consider to be the richest of Crumb's career. Anchored by Crumb's contributions to the seminal anthology Weirdo, created and edited by Crumb, this volume focuses on the years 1985-1987 and includes the seminal "Jelly Roll Morton's Voodoo Curse," from Art Spiegelman's RAW magazine. Also featured are Crumb's gorgeous "Pioneers of Country Music" color portrait series, and such Weirdo classics as "The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick," which chronicles the last years of the highly-regarded science-fiction writer who experienced an intense vision of the apocalypse and believed that he was possessed by the spirit of Elijah. Also included is Crumb's first issue of Hup, his acclaimed solo series of the 1980s and 1990s. The book is rounded out with a new cover and introduction by Crumb and a color section that includes rare album art for various jazz and blues greats, as well reproductions of his various comic book covers from this period. Crumb is the most revealing of all artists, and The Complete Crumb Comics leaves no stone unturned.
Publication date: 1989-01-17
Dewey code: 817
List Price: $19.99
Price: $74.99
Review The Complete Crumb Comics Vol. 4: Mr. Sixties! / Fantagraphics Books:
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