9781560974611
The Complete Crumb Comics, Volume 16 share button
R Crumb
Format Hardcover
Dimensions 8.70 (w) x 11.10 (h) x 0.60 (d)
Pages 112
Publisher Fantagraphics Books
Publication Date August 2002
ISBN 9781560974611
Book ISBN 10 1560974613
About Book
The multiple award-winning The Complete Crumb Comics series—the definitive, comprehensive series reprinting the entirety of Crumb's oeuvre—enters the mid-1980s with this 16th volume, a period that many critics consider to be the richest of Crumb's career. Anchored by Crumb's contributions to the seminal anthology Weirdo, created and edited by Crumb, this volume focuses on the years 1985-1987 and includes the seminal "Jelly Roll Morton's Voodoo Curse," from Art Spiegelman's RAW magazine. Also featured are Crumb's gorgeous "Pioneers of Country Music" color portrait series, and such Weirdo classics as "The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick," which chronicles the last years of the highly-regarded science-fiction writer who experienced an intense vision of the apocalypse and believed that he was possessed by the spirit of Elijah. Also included is Crumb's first issue of Hup, his acclaimed solo series of the 1980s and 1990s. The book is rounded out with a new cover and introduction by Crumb and a color section that includes rare album art for various jazz and blues greats, as well reproductions of his various comic book covers from this period. Crumb is the most revealing of all artists, and The Complete Crumb Comics leaves no stone unturned.
Reviews

Booklist

“An impressive demonstration of his versatility... shows off his boundless imagination, iconoclastic worldview, and masterly draftsmanship.”

Robert Hughes - Time

“An American Hogarth.”

The Guardian

“His work is wry, hilarious, and infinitely more entertaining than any tale of his domestic woe.”

Kurt Vonnegut

Crumb begins where MAD leaves off... He makes me proud to be an American.

Robert Doty

The Daumier of his time.

Robert Hughes

An American Hogarth. —Time Magazine