New Releases by R. Crumb

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.

This is a more-than-complete collection (it includes the unpublished 17th issue!) of the quintessential underground comic book.

For more than 40 years, legendary American artist Robert Crumb has documented his nightly dreams in a meticulously kept private journal. This material has stood as a guarded secret in a career defined by an impish compulsion to publically self-disclose. All of the artist''s well-documented preoccupations are present and accounted for--rampant egomania, insatiable lust, profound self-disgust, the sad beauty of old America, the moral bankruptcy of new America and the fool''s errand quest for spiritual enlightenment--but here they are entirely untamed, springing forth from forces beyond even his control. Published for the first time, the complete Dream Diaries offer readers a deep, dark look under the hood of one of America''s most aggressively dynamic comedic voices.

The final, previously-only-available-in-a limited/collector''s-edition issue of the the most important comic book series of all time! This blowout issue not only includes work by all eight Zap artists (plus a collaboration with cartoonist Aline Kominsky), but also three double-page jams by the group. Plus:Zap’s first-and-only color section, featuring comics by R. Crumb and Gilbert Shelton (his final Zap Wonder Wart-hog episode, no less). Paul Mavrides provides an alternately embellished version of Gilbert Shelton’s and his Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers episode, “Phineas Becomes a Suicide Bomber” (originally inked in the Complete Zap by Shelton).

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. Anchored by Crumb''s contributions to his anthology Weirdo, this volume focuses on the years 1985-1987 and includes the seminal Jelly Roll Morton''s Voodoo Curse,'' from RAW magazine. Also featured is the ''Pioneers of Country Music'' colour portrait series, and other Weirdo classics such as ''The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick''. This volume also features an introduction from Crumb.''

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.

Two perennial Crumb collections are now back in print.

The Complete Crumb Comics Vol. 3: "Starring Fritz the Cat" includes storiesthat begin to build the Crumb legend: the Fritz stories from Harvey Kurtzman''sHelp! magazine in 1965, plus some of Crumb''s long-lost American Greeting cardsfrom the ''60s, plus the story of Crumb''s first acid trip. This volume is part ofthe most comprehensive Crumb collection in print and boasts a wide variety ofmaterial: Not only Crumb''s well-known comics, but little-seen commercial art andrarely-if-ever-seen treasures from private collections and the artist''s personalarchives.

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

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. Included is work from Whole Earth Review, Zap Comix, Premiere magazine and many other rare gems. Featured are classics including the title story ''Cave Wimp'' - the story of the first nerd - and ''A Short History of America,'' amongst others. This volume includes a new introduction by Crumb, full-colour cover portfolio sections and a brand new cover.

''Weirdo'' was a magazine-sized comics anthology created by Robert Crumb in 1981, which ran for 28 issues. It served as a ''low art'' counterpoint to its contemporary highbrow ''Raw''. Early issues of ''Weirdo'' reflect Crumb''s interests at the time - outsider art, fumetti, Church of the SubGenius-type anti-propaganda and assorted ''weirdness''.

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.

A revealing collection of the great artist''s private correspondence.

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 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.

Envisioning the first book of the Bible like no one before him, R. Crumb, the legendary illustrator, retells the story of Genesis in a profoundly honest and deeply moving way. Originally thinking that he would do a takeoff of Adam and Eve, Crumb became so fascinated by the Bible''s language, "a text so great and so strange that it lends itself readily to graphic depictions," that he decided instead to do a literal interpretation using the text word for word, assembled primarily from the translations of Robert Alter and the King James Version. Now, readers of every persuasion-Crumb fans, comic book lovers, and believers-can gain astonishing new insights from these harrowing, tragic, and even juicy stories. Crumb''s Book of Genesis reintroduces us to the bountiful tree-lined garden of Adam and Eve, the massive ark of Noah with beasts of every kind, the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed by brimstone and fire that rained from the heavens, and the Egypt of the Pharaoh, where Joseph''s embalmed body is carried in a coffin, in a scene as elegiac as any in Genesis. Using clues from the text and peeling away the theological and scholarly interpretations that have often obscured the Bible''s most dramatic stories, Crumb fleshes out a parade of biblical originals: from the serpent in Eden, the humanoid reptile appearing like an alien out of a science fiction movie, to Jacob, a "kind of depressed guy who doesn''t strike you as physically courageous," and his bother, Esau, "a rough and kick-ass guy," to Abraham''s wife, Sarah, more fetching than most woman at ninety, to God himself, "a standard Charlton Heston-like figure with long white hair and a flowing beard." As Crumb writes in his introduction, "the stories of this people, the Hebrews, were then something more than just stories, they were the foundation, the source, in writing, of religious and political power, handed down by God Himself." Crumb''s Book of Genesis, the culmination of five years of painstaking work, is a tapestry of masterly detail and storytelling that celebrates the astonishing diversity of the one of our greatest artistic geniuses.

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.

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,

This is the third book in successful series of occasional sketches by the grandfather of American alternative comix. These sketches reveal another side-- a contemplative side-- to the controversial artist, renowned for his taboo-breaking satires of American society. With his intricate cross-hatching and observant line, the drawings here show Crumb as an imaginative chronicler of everyday life.

In this collection of interviews that spans from the late 1960s to the beginning of the twenty-first century, the comic artist proves to be iconoclastic, opinionated, and impervious to the commercial moods of the public

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.

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

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:

The stories are presented in luxurious format and binding. Two editions are available: 500 numbered copies in a Deluxe cloth slipcase and signed by Robert Crumb; and a special edition with an original artwork, limited to ten copies (price on request).

Presents comics, writings, and artwork by the Crumb family, especially Robert, Charles, Jesse, and Maxon, depicting their struggles with a disturbing family life, tragedies, and successes in the world of art. Contains adult content.