Best Selling Books by R. Crumb

Call Out: Words of wisdom from R. Crumb hisself ("sic"): All my life I''ve loved women and hated ''em at the same time, often at the exact same moment! ~I realized I was a geek and I wasn''t going to make it with the girls. I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist. ~The only burning passion I''m sure I have, is the passion for sex. ~My personal obsession for big women interferes with some people''s enjoyment of my work. I knew it was weird and disturbing and even offensive to a lot of people, particularly women. But I couldn''t keep it out of the comics. I would always try to give it some sort of metaphorical sense because I derived such masturbatory pleasure out of drawing these women in bizarre situations with these little guys doing stuff to them.

Back in print after a several-year absence, and withCrumb''s popularity ever-rising, this fourth volume of The Complete Crumb Comicsspotlights Crumb''s most infamous period (roughly 1966-1967), from his final daysas a wage slave at American Greetings and into his hippie heyday with the firsttwo issues (#0 and #1) of ZAP Comix, the comics that launched the undergroundcomix revolution. Also included are strips and illustrations from seminalcounterculture publications like Yarrowstalks, The East Village Other, Cavalier,and more. Includes an introduction by Crumb as well.

Spanning the most important part of his life, from the painful formative years of his early adolescence to the fame and fortune of his adulthood, this collection of underground giant Robert Crumb''s personal correspondence sheds light on the artistic development, bitter struggle, and ultimate triumph of the greatest cartoonist of the 20th century. A powerful literary view into the mind of an artisic genius, and an entertaining read even for those few not familiar with Crumb''s legendary body of work. The most exciting publishing event of the year.

A collection of comic strips and illustrations by legendary comic artist R. Crumb spanning 1975-78. Contains adult content.

Randy Robert: Crumb''s secret fantasies revealed They have little to do with the standard procreative urge, Mr. Crumb admits. He has also said he finds nothing more boring than someone else''s sexual obsessions, and yet through his long career the world''s most famous underground cartoonist has felt compelled to include his own sex fantasies in his art. He explains it as a compulsive catharsis, while fans call R. Crumb''s erotic fantasies the Master at his best. Now Crumb has selected his most intimately revealing comic strips and single page drawings to create a 256 page encyclopedic trip through his sexual psyche. All images were created between 1980 and 2006, and all strips are colored for a lush vibrancy never seen in his comic books. In total the book features 14 complete stories, including My Troubles With Women II, If I Were a King, A Bitchin'' Bod and How To Have Fun With a Strong Girl, as well as 62 single page drawings. This signed, slipcased, limited edition of 1,000 copies is a work of art in itself, with every part of the book''case, front and back covers, spine, introduction and pre-introduction pages''created for this project by Robert Crumb. Each book also comes with a print on mould-made age-resistant hahnemuehle paper pulled from an original watercolor by Robert Crumb. The artist admits it''s a little scary to see his most fevered obsessions collected and to end like this, but fans will find R. Crumb''s Sex Obsessions a fascinating peek inside an often tortured, always brilliantly talented mind, as well as an unparalleled collector''s item.

Robert Crumb''s first great character -- in fact, his second-best-known character next to Mr. Natural -- was Fritz the Cat, the horny, hip-talking feline whose success caused Crumb to kill him off. The Life and Death of Fritz the Cat, back in print as an inexpensive hardcover as a companion to The Book of Mr. Natural, contains all the Fritz stories from the earliest sketchbook-drawn tales ("Hey, Ol'' Cat!" and "Fritz Comes On Strong") to the wild adventure stories ("Special Agent for the C.I.A.") to the classic "peak" Fritz stories ("Fritz the No-Good") all the way to the despairing "Fritz the Cat, Superstar" with its infamous ice-pick ending.

"This collection features over 120 pages of vintage Crumb comics starring the white-bearded, diminutive sage-cum-charlatan, ranging from charming, free-wheeling early ''70s stories to the disturbing, controversial ''90s stories (as seen in the Crumb movie), including the entire 40-page ''Mr. Natural and Devil Girl'' saga from Hup! (collected here for the first time in book form)"--Publisher''s web site.