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ROBERT CRUMB
Click HERE for R. CRUMB'S CARLOAD O' COMICS
ADULTS ONLY
R. CRUMB'S
CARLOAD O'COMICS
by Robert Crumb
Paperback: 176 pages
Kitchen Sink Press
ISBN: 0878164030
$18.95
For better or worse--it depends who you're talking to--Robert Crumb's comics come barreling out of his acid-drenched id. Basic desires, racial stereotypes, and blinding rage are all poured into little panels. While that form of expression's not as novel (or liberating) as it once was, Crumb is still one of the 20th century's true American originals, and Carload O' Comics is an excellent overview of his work.
This funny, grotesque book trots out all the old favories--Mr. Natural, the Snoid, Dale Steinberger Jewish Cowgirl, and of course, Crumb himself. Some strips are, um, gynecological, some are self-indulgent, and others are just plain weird. Crumb's a faithful mirror of his times: he depicts two guys smoking dope while floating down the river in a barrel--when else but the 1960s? 

This is 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 60's and early 70's. Get inside Crumb's sixities head in his "Confessions" and his wild encounter with a Women's Group in "R. Crumb vs. the Sisterhood."

Crumb may not be for kids, but he is funny in a way that a lot of his underground cronies never were. In this age of market studies and focus groups, Crumb oozes authenticity; he's an unrepentant nerdy pervert, but he's just being honest. Bless him for that, at least.

Unavailable since the 70's. Introduction by Harvey Kurtzman.

ROBERT CRUMB
Click HERE for THE BOOK OF MR. NATURAL THE BOOK OF
MR. NATURAL
by Robert Crumb
Paperback: 112 pages
Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 1560971940
$12.95
Mr. Natural is a 1960s guru, "th' only knower of th' cosmic mysteries alive at this time." Calling him a "mystic madcap" gives the crass, less-than-compassionate charlatan the benefit of the doubt. He is not particularly wise or helpful; in fact, he's a lecherous, grumbling old geezer who gives advice such as "When you arise in the morning, you should do last night's dirty dishes . . . then you should sing a simple melody (of your own choice) . . . then you should call somebody up (not me) . . . then go to the store . . . buy some asparagus."
'twas ever thus!

True to the collection's name and R. Crumb's reputation, the stories are sometimes sexually graphic (especially in the scenes with Devil Girl) and a bit on the violent side. Still, there's an innocent, upbeat quality to this comic reflection of America's most notoriously freewheeling decade.
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From Booklist , February 15, 1996
Seminal underground comics artist Crumb has lately gained wider recognition, thanks to an acclaimed documentary about him. Libraries wanting some representative Crumb in the wake of the movie may be better served by this single volume featuring one of his most famous creations than by the multivolume reprinting of all of his work that Fantagraphics has about half-completed. The bearded, robed, curmudgeonly guru Mr. Natural hasn't changed much since his 1967 debut. An ever-serene-but-horny philosopher-for-hire, dispensing enlightenment to an undeserving world--is he a wise, grizzled mystic or a cynical charlatan? A teller of timeless truths or a sixties anachronism?
Wherever he appears, so do his most loyal acolyte, Flakey Foont, and his obsession, the lusty Devil Girl. The collection constitutes a sheer delight for those who have followed the Natch's exploits over the years, yet it is completely accessible to nonaficionados--at least those undaunted by the raunchiness that is another thing that hasn't changed since the sage's early days.

--Gordon Flagg
Copyright© 1996, American Library Association. All rights reserved.
ROBERT CRUMB
Click here to order THE COMPLETE CRUMB, Volume 5: HAPPY HIPPY COMIX THE COMPLETE CRUMB
Volume Five:
HAPPY HIPPY COMIX
by Robert Crumb
Paperback
Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 093019392X
$18.95
The publisher,Fantagraphics Books
Alternative comics!
This volume includes lots of early Mr. Natural stories, plus such disreputable Crumb work as SNATCH and the "Angelfood McSpade" stories. Rarities include the original, rarely seen alternate cover to "Cheap Thrills", an alternate cover for ZAP #3, and much more!
--Chris Jacobs
ROBERT CRUMB
THE COMPLETE CRUMB
Volume Thirteen:
SEASON OF THE SNOID
by Robert Crumb
Paperback: 144 pages
Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 1560972963
$18.95
Fantagraphics' comprehensive collection of Crumb's work continues with this, the 13th volume.
From Booklist , May 15, 1998
Fantagraphics' series reprinting all Crumb's comics in chronology reaches the late 1970s, when the Snoid first appeared. That Crumb creation is a devilish imp, all id and no conscience, that some say is an alter ego of Crumb. Other highlights here include early collaborations with autobiographical comics writer Harvey Pekar and a color section of covers Crumb drew for records by old-time blues and jazz musicians, including his own band, the Cheap Suit Serenaders, that beautifully convey his nostalgia for America's musical past. An even more heartfelt tribute to a vanished America and one of Crumb's most acclaimed works, "A Short History of America," whose 12 panels chart the nation's progress--or deterioration--from unspoiled pastoral landscape to a strip mall scene clogged with cars, telephone poles, and overhead wires, also appears. Crumb's brother Max, whom viewers of the documentary film Crumb will remember as an impecunious yogi who sleeps on a bed of nails, contributes an idiosyncratic introduction offering a unique, if largely impenetrable, perspective on Robert's early years.
Copyright © 1998, American Library Association. All rights reserved.
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