"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, ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Gathered here are the collected works of the titans of adults comics legendary underground cartoonist R. Crumb and the "high priest of comic-book naturalism" (Newsweek) Harvey Pekar. The comic collision of these underground luminaries is funny, obsessive, ever-so-slightly neurotic, but always biting and honest.
Dana's latest cookbook is fun to read, fun to look at and fun to cook from. This unique cookbook contains great recipes, fun advice, hard learned wisdom, and amusing anecdotes from a fabulous cook who is also wryly humorous, delightfully droll, and the survivor of a thoroughly fascinating life.
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, ...
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. New reprint.
Fourteen of the most provocative, vital and boundary-breaking artists of today candidly discuss their lives, art and experiences, including Art Spiegelman (Maus), Dan Clowes (Eightball), Julie Doucet (Dirty Plotte), Chris Ware (ACME Novelty Library), Chester Brown (Yummy Fur), Aline Kominsky-Crumb (Weirdo), Ted Rall, and more!
Phoebe Gloeckner's first book collects her highly praised autobiographical accounts of a teenage girl's loss of innocence through sex, drugs, rape, and AIDS. This edition includes eight pages of new material. Long respected as one of the finest and most original of today's underground comics artists, Gloeckner shows both technical artistry and ...
The influence of American blues music is deep, profound and worldwide. HEROES OF THE BLUES is a boxed set of 36 trading cards consisting of color portraits by celebrated artist Robert Crumb, with biographical information by music historian Stephen Calt on the reverse of each card. The shrink-wrapped set is housed in a sturdy, attractive gift box ...
The sublime cartoon genius of Robert Crumb, paired with the dynamic writing of David Zane Mairowitz, creates a vibrant biography that examines Franz Kafka in a way that a bland textbook never could! "Introducing Kafka" offers insight into such works as "Metamorphosis," "The Trial," Kafka's great unfinished novel "The Castle" and other works. ...
EARLY JAZZ GREATS is a boxed set of 36 trading cards consisting of color portraits by celebrated artist Robert Crumb, with incisive biographical information on the reverse of each card. The shrink-wrapped set is housed in a sturdy, attractive box for permanent protection. Famous jazz musicians like Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, ...
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 ...
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