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 Natural, Snoid, Devil Girl, and all the rest--in a lavish volume suitable for the coffee table, including unpublished rarities, pages from Crumb's sketchbook, juvenilia, and photos.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 ...
"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 ...
A book length collaboration between two underground legends, Charles Bukowski and Robert Crumb. Bukowski's last journals candidly and humorously reveal the events in the writer's life as death draws inexorably nearer, thereby illuminating our own lives and natures, and to give new meaning to what was once only familiar. Crumb has illustrated the ...
Busted! is a funny, smart, subversive worst-case scenario guide for casual drug users and their tolerant friends.It's the Bible on how not to get busted and what to do if you are. Using celebrity busts, outrageous everyman busts, and the author's professional experience, Busted! is everything you need to know about the criminal justice system, ...
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.
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:
This little book transcends geographical, social, and economic boundaries to search the heart and soul of the blues, looking for rules to live by, hope for the downtrodden, cautionary tales for the good times, and truths that "hurt so good". Sometimes, you just gotta be blue. But, as this book goes to show, that's okay--because you're never alone.
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 ...
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 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.
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.
This quirky collection includes Christmas cards, cartoons, birth announcements, and other ephemera from Crumb's work--objects that exhibit all Crumb's characteristic trademarks, including large women, urban blight, and the idiocies of consumer culture observed with a sharp eye.
The legends of underground comix meet today's most demented alternative scribblers in Legal Action Comics Volume 1, which features contributions from R. Crumb, Robert Williams, Spain, Kim Deitch, Gary Panter, Jay Lynch, Mary Fleener, Julie Doucet, Sam Henderson, Dean Haspiel, and sixty other talents! Legal Action Comics features a gorgeous ...
The Complete Crumb Comics Vol. 15 focuses on the years 1983 to 1985 and includes all of Crumb's seminal contributions to Weirdo #s 9-15. Kicking off with a lengthy introduction by Crumb's Weirdo prodigy Peter Bagge, Vol. 15 also includes the first of Crumb's exciting experiments in brush ("Patton, " from Zap #11), the first of several appearances ...
Carrying the theme "Rediscovering American Resources", legendary journalist Warren Hinkle edits Argonaut--a literary and political journal based upon the irreverent and daring Gold Rush-era periodical of the same name. Contributors include Studs Terkel, Hunter S. Thompson, David Mamet, and Ishmael Reed with an invigorating menu of fresh writing ...
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