New Releases by R. Crumb

A wonderful window into Crumb''s world of bodies and ideas, art and beauty.

This volume brings together twenty-five of R. Crumb’s most ambitious, acclaimed, and profound comics, all produced at the height of the underground comix movement and which are out of print. One of the most influential and iconic cartoonists of our time, R. Crumb is celebrated for pushing the boundaries of representation, mass consumerism, and polite society. Exemplifying the peak of Crumb’s creative output, the comics in this volume blend meticulous research with insights gained from the artist’s experimentation in the 1960s and 1970s. The comics collected here depict characters searching for an understanding of the world around and within themselves. Through adaptation, autobiography, biography, and short fiction, Crumb—much like his subjects—demands we pay attention to our darkest desires, compulsions, fears, and obsessions. Editor Dan Nadel’s introduction weaves together Crumb’s life, career, and influences, delving into the creative environment that informed some of the artist’s most illustrious comics.

Collectors of illustrator R. Crumb''s work prize the music-oriented trading card sets he created in the 1980s. Now they appear together for the first time in book form, along with a CD of music selected and compiled by Crumb himself.

All selections originally appeared in Weirdo magazine, 1981-1993.

For over four decades, Robert Crumb has shocked, entertained, titillated and challenged the imaginations (and the inhibitions) of comics fans the world over. This long out of print volume of the multiple Harvey and Eisner award-winning Complete Crumb Comics has been one Fantagraphics'' most demanded reprints of the last several years. Vol.6 features all of Crumb''s work from Big Ass #1, Zap #4 (including the legendary, much-busted ''Joe Blow''), the remarkably offensive Snatch #3 and Jiz #1, Despair - all classics in their own right.

This exclusive collection of haunting images of people and places reveals the tender side of R. Crumb, a 1960s counter-culture artist who broke into the fine art world with great acclaim.

"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.

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.

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.

This is a multi-award winning series from cult hero Robert Crumb, known as the Father of Underground Comics. It includes hilarious and dramatic autobiographical strips, and classic creations Fritz the Cat and Mr. Natural.

The R.Crumb Handbook tells the story of how a loser-schmuck became a culturalcon, and is more than just another celebrity tell-all sexploitation. Thisrand new hardback collection of original cartoons with never beforeublished work, takes the reader on a unique journey through the life andimes of one of the 20th century''s most notorious and influential counterulture artists.;"Crumbs material comes out of a deep sense of the absurdityf human life." - Robert Hughes, Art Critic;The only underground cartoonisto be accepted by the fine art world, the R.Crumb Handbook is divided intohe four enemies of man: FEAR; CLARITY; POWER; OLD AGE;Working with his oldrinking buddy and co-author Pete Poplasky, the four chapters are easilyigested. With over 400 pages of cartoons and photographs, Crumb''s oftenontroversially-regarded views toward Disneyland, growing up in America,ippie love, art galleries, and turning 60 are revealed.;By tracing hisevelopment as a cartoonist from his tormented childhood in the 1940s througho his coming of age as an artist in the psychedelic revolution of the 1960s,

Combines illustrated biographical details with a visual adaptation of some of the great Czech writer''s works in a volume that includes graphic novel renditions of The Judgment, The Trial, The Castle, A Hunger Artist, and The Metamorphosis. Part illustrated biography, part comics adaptation, R. Crumb''s Kafka is a vibrant biography that examines this Czech writer and his works in a way that a bland textbook never could! R. Crumb''s Kafka goes far beyond being explication or popularization or survey it is a work of art in its own right, a very rare example of what happens when one very idiosyncratic artist absorbs another into his world view without obliterating the individuality of the absorbed one. Crumb''s art is filled with Kafka''s insurmountable neuroses. They are all there: Gregor Samsa''s sister, the luscious Milena Jesenska, the Advocate''s ''nurse'' Leni, Olda and Frieda, and the ravishing Dora Diamant drawn in that mixture of self-command, tantalizing knowingness and sly sexuality that Amazonian randiness and thick-limbed physicality that is Crumb.

Populated by junkies, grifters, hustlers, strippers, pimps and various strains of victims and criminals, this is a biting, satiric portrait of America from the lower depths. A collection of autobiographical stories from debut cartoonist Eve Gilbert is unflinchingly candid and caustic, with one of the most uniquely confident and iconoclastic voices to hit the world of graphic novels in several years.

"Jelly Roll Morton''s Voodoo Curse," plus the "Pioneers of Country Music" portrait series, Weirdo classics like "The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick," Hup #1 and more!

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.

Offers a collection of rare works by the comic artist, including magazine covers and portraits and drawings created for friends and family.

''Crumb is the Brueghel of the last half of the twentieth century'' Robert Hughes

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 retrospective of the legendary underground artist''s work features his characters Fritz the Cat, Devil Girl, and Mr. Natural, as well as unpublished rarities and personal reflections from the artist himself

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

Classic Crumb in a great collection! Mr. Natural and Flakey Foont, the incorrigible Mr. Snoid, and classic counterculture characters like Honeybunch Kaminski, "the drug-crazed runaway" and Jumpin'' Jack Flash run riot through the pages of this gathering of Crumb''s best comics from the late ''60s and early ''70s. Get inside Crumb''s sixties head in his "Confessions" and his wild encounter with a women''s group in "R. Crumb vs. the Sisterhood." Introduction by Harvey Kurtzman. Adults only.

Personally selected by the artist, these drawings include much material never seen before. Volume 5 covers 1967 and 1968, when Crumb was crowned King of the Undergrounds. See a world-famous artist at work, developing ideas.

This book, helping us to see beyond the cliche Kafkaesque, is illustrated by legendary underground artist Robert Crumb.

A collection of comic strips by Robert Crumb that were inspired by his love of blues music. 'Contains adult content.

An incomparable, ongoing masterpiece. R. Crumb is undoubtedly the foremost cartoonist of the latter 20th Century, and his sketchbooks-in which he has written and drawn continually from the early ''60s to present-might rank as his finest achievement.