9781560972648
The Complete Crumb Comics: We're Livin' in the Lap of Luxury, Vol. 12 share button
R Crumb
Format Paperback
Dimensions 8.64 (w) x 10.98 (h) x 0.39 (d)
Pages 136
Publisher Fantagraphics Books
Publication Date December 2009
ISBN 9781560972648
Book ISBN 10 1560972645
About Book

A perennial classic: the twelfth volume of the complete cartoon work of the underground cartoonist.

Back in print after a several-year absence, the twelfth volume of The Complete Crumb Comics spotlights Crumb’s first collaborations with writer Harvey Pekar, which appeared in Pekar’s magazine American Splendor. This collection also includes a skeptical report-in-comics on an aerospace symposium (commissioned by CoEvolution Quarterly, it comes off like a forerunner of Michael Moore’s cocky documentary films), Crumb’s encounter with a pot-smoking interviewer from High Times magazine, an evocative period piece featuring 1930s jazz musicians, another of Crumb’s collaborative “jams” with wife Aline Kominsky, and other pieces.

Reviews

From the Publisher

“Taken in sequence, these books display the evolution of Crumb’s style, from his repressed yet dreamily idealistic early efforts to the joyful discoveries made by Crumb in the aftermath of his ‘fuzzy acid’ period of the mid ‘60s, to the postfame autobiographical works and endless strips obsessed with misogyny and perversion. (The Village Voice)”

“What a long, strange trip it’s been. Over the course of his five-decade career the comic artist R. Crumb has gone from hero of the hippie underground to toast of the international art world. (The New York Times)”