The Complete Crumb Comics Volume 4: Mr. Sixties!

Crumb, R.

ISBN 10: 0930193792 / ISBN 13: 9780930193799

Published by Fantagraphics Books, Seattle, WA, 1989

About this Item

Stated first Fantagraphics Books edition with the full number line present. 8 1/4" x 10 3/4" trade paperback bound in pictorial wrappers. Fine condition. Edited by Gary Groth with Robert Fiore.

Seller Inventory # 1675

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Complete Crumb Comics Volume 4: Mr. Sixties!
• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books, Seattle, WA
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0930193792
• ISBN 13: 9780930193799
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition.

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Synopsis

A classic volume of the definitive Complete Crumb library, back in print after years of unavailability!

The Complete Crumb Comics Vol. 4: Mr. Sixties! continues the multi-volume series comprising the complete works of the legendary cartoonist R. Crumb, one of America's most original, trenchant, and uncompromising satirists. The series includes the earliest, heretofore unpublished comic strips, as well as his sketchbooks, underground comix, dramatic and autobiographical strips, and his classic cartoon creations Fritz the Cat and Mr. Natural. In this volume: Zap #0 & #1 ("Keep On Truckin'!"), Crumb's work from the East Village Other and Yarrowstalks, plus much rare art, some of Crumb's long-lost American Greetings cards from the '60s, and more.

"I figured it out somehow ― the way to put the stoned experience into a series of cartoon panels. I began to submit LSD-inspired strips to underground papers... not for pay... never gave it a thought... but they loved them. These 1967 strips of mine contained the hopeful spirit of the times, drawn in a more lovable 'bigfoot' style. The stuff caught on. They wanted more. Suddenly I was able to churn it out... late that summer one of the underground paper publishers asked me to do an entire issue of his paper Yarrowstalks (corny hippy spiritual stuff ― 'yarrowstalks' are what they used to throw the 'I Ching'). This went over so well that he suggested I draw comic books and he would publish them. This was a thrilling idea to me ― a dream come true..."―R. Crumb, from his introduction to this volume 16 color, 128 black & white illustrations

About the Author

Born in Philadelphia, Robert Crumb is one of America’s most celebrated artists. Thrust reluctantly into fame as a defining voice of the 1960s and 1970s counterculture with comic strips like Fritz the Cat, Mr. Natural, and Keep on Truckin’, then again in the 1990s with the acclaimed documentary Crumb and more recently the 2025 biography Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life, he continues to push himself and his chosen medium from his home in the south of France.