From the Creation to the death of Joseph, here is the Book of Genesis, revealingly illustrated as never before. Peeling away the theological and scholarly interpretations that have often obscured its most dramatic stories, Crumb--using the actual text word for word--has imagined the Bible as it really was.
For over three decades R. Crumb has shocked, entertained, titillated and challenged the imaginations (and the inhibitions) of comics fans the world over. The acknowledged father of "underground comix," Crumb is the single greatest influence on the alternative comics of today. The three companion sets of trading cards - Heroes of the Blues, Early ...
Here are Crumb's famously wacky characters--Fritz the Cat, Mr. Natural, Snoid, Devil Girl, and all the rest--in a lavish volume suitable for the coffee table, including unpublished rarities, pages from Crumb's sketchbook, juvenilia, and photos. Crumb introduces each section of comic strips with a short, thoughtful essay exploring various aspects ...
The celebrated R. Crumb draws in restaurants, specifically Le Micocoulier, Le Trouilladou Pizzeria, and the Auberge des Violets Verts, all located in Sauve, the southern French town where he and his family live.
The inspiration for the award-winning movie from HBO Films and Fine Line Features AMERICAN SPLENDOR The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar Two classic comic anthologies in one volume Stories by Harvey Pekar Introduction by R. Crumb Art by Kevin Brown, Gregory Budgett, Sean Carroll, Sue Cavey, R. Crumb, Gary Dumm, Val Mayerik, and Gerry Shamray ...
A wonderful educational tool for those unfamiliar with Kafka, this volume includes a brief but inclusive biography as well as the plots of many of his works, all illustrated by Crumb, making this newly designed edition a must-have for admirers of both Kafka and Crumb. Young Adult.
"What do I have in common with the Jews? I don't even have anything in common with myself". Nothing could better express the essence of Franz Kafka, a man described by his friends as living behind a "glass wall". Kafka wrote in the tradition of the great Yiddish storytellers, whose stock-in-trade was bizarre fantasy, tainted with hilarity and self ...
From the greatest draughtsman of the 20th and 21st century, an exclusive collection of drawings that reveal the tender side of R. Crumb. Evocative, haunting images of people and places dear to the man who hates to be known as (But is) America's Greatest Living Artist.
"Crumb's material comes out of a deep sense of the absurdity of human life. At a certain kind of psychological level there aren't any heroes, there aren't any villains, there aren't any heroines, and even the victims are comic." - Robert Hughes
Collecting his political drawings and another series of thematic anthologies from the Grand Master of modern comix. From the right-on 60s and 70s to the bitterness and disillusion of the 80s and ending with the futility of fighting the all powerful system, Crumba covers a variety of political attitudes while retaining his anti-Establishment ...
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. Fantagraphics is proud to present these sketchbooks, in facsimile form, as a comprehensive ...
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 ...
Everyone knows the temptation of doodling on a restaurant tablecloth -- but no one performs this deed as masterfully as R. Crumb. In this second collection of often irreverent and always mesmerizing placemat drawings, Crumb depicts fellow diners, Americana, French culture, and flights of fancy, offering a glimpse into the mind of an inspired ...
Crumb's most notorious character, Fritz the Cat, actually appeared in only a handful of stories in the 1960s and '70s, yet his legend lives on, largely in part to Ralph Bakshi's atrocious animated film based on the strip (and which prompted Crumb to immediately kill the character upon the film's release). All of Fritz's appearances are collected ...
The companion series to The Complete Crumb Comics, this is a chronological reprinting of Crumb's personal sketchbooks from his late teens on. The following volumes are currently in stock:
R Crumb is undoubtedly the foremost cartoonist of the latter 20th Century. His sketch-books, in which he has written and drawn continually from the early 60's to the present, might rank as his finest achievement. Presented in facsimile form, Volume 7 covers mid-1969 through the end of 1976 and represents one of the more inquisitive and soul ...
This important addition to the ongoing project to publish the complete works of America's best-known "underground" cartoonist collects comics from the early 1970s. It includes classic crumb characters like Flakey Foont, Mr. Natural, Projunior, the Snoid and Angel McFood. Crumbs work is characterized by all out sex, and his various obsessions are ...
On the twentieth anniversary of his first publication, Mr. Natural returns along with his fabled creator. This book features 16 pages of new, rare material and an introduction by Crumb himself, filling readers in on what's happened since his seminal work was given to the world in the 1960s. Cartoons and comics.
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