Weirdo 02 summer 1981

Title: Weirdo 02 summer 1981
Author: Robert Crumb
Language: English
Adult content

    Cover by Robert Crumb. "Hillary's Impertinent Pup," photos by Terry Zwigoff; Hillary takes her dog for a walk but gets all tangled up. "The Entropy Crisis," script and art by Harry S. Robins; Poem about entropy. "Science Or Sanity?", script and art by Harry S. Robins; The Professor lucks out in love.

    "Weirdo Does a Total Makeover," photos by Terry Zwigoff; A bum has a Weirdo makeover. "Backwoods Comic Postcards," art by Norman F. Pettingill; Eight cartoons about 1940s rural American life. "Mr. Bunch Takes a Sabbatical," script and art by Aline Kominsky-Crumb; The Bunch loses her masculine side. "Weirdo Art Section: It's Art For Art's Sake!" by Robert Crumb; Cartoon doodles. "Bloods in Space," script by Kevin Lambert, art by Dori Seda; Earth has a visitation. Assorted one-page strips by Robert Crumb

Weirdo 02 summer 1981

Weirdo 01 Spring 1981

Title: Weirdo 01 Spring 1981
Author: Robert Cramb
Language: English
Adult content

   Picking up where Zap stopped, Weirdo, under three different editors, defined a new aesthetic for the '80s, opening the way for a whole new comics literacy for a new generation of readers. R. Crumb, P. Bagge and Aline Kominsky edited three phases of Weirdo, respectively the "Personal Confessions", The "Coming of the Bad Boys", the "Twisted Sisters". Each phase produced a crop of new cartoonists.

    This Premier Issue 1 features mostly stories by Crumb: "TV Blues with Etoain Shrdlu," "The Beautiful Experience: The Weirdo Makeover," and "High Times Interviews R. Crumb," Photo-Funnies stories, story by Bruce Duncan, Glenn Bray, Church of the Subgenius, both covers by Crumb.

Weirdo 01 (Spring 1981)

The Complete Crumb Comics Vol.8

Title: The Complete Crumb Comics - Volume 8 [1971-1972] Featuring the Death of Fritz the Cat
Author: Robert Crumb
Language: English
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    The Complete Crumb Comics Vol. 8: The Death of Fritz the Cat 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    The series includes the earliest, heretofore unpublished comic strips, as well as his underground comix, dramatic and autobiographical strips, and his classic cartoon creations Fritz the Cat and Mr. Natural. This volume features work from 1971 and 1972.

The Complete Crumb Comics Vol. 8

The Complete Crumb Comics Vol.7

Title: The Complete Crumb Comics - Volume 7 [1970-1971] Hot 'n' Heavy
Author: Robert Crumb
Language: English
Adult content

   Back in print after a several-year absence, and with Crumb’s popularity ever-rising, the seventh volume of The Complete Crumb Comics spotlights Crumb’s work from 1970 and 1971, the peak years of Crumb’s hippie stardom which led to “the grip of paralyzing, crippling self-consciousness that for years became increasingly harder to push past,” as Crumb writes in his introduction.

    Included from this era is the entirety of Crumb’s work from underground classics such as ZAP, The East Village Other, Bijou, Mr. Natural, Uneeda, Esquire, and much more, including strips featuring classic Crumb characters like Fritz the Cat, Flakey Foont, Angelfood McSpade, Bo Bo Bolinski, and Shuman the Human. 16 color, 128 b&w illustrations.

The Complete Crumb Comics - Volume 7

The Complete Crumb Comics Vol.6

Title: The Complete Crumb Comics - Vol 6 [1969-1970] On the Crest of a Wave
Author: Robert Crumb
Language: English
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   Robert Crumb enters the ’70s “On the Crest of a Wave” with the sixth volume in Fantagraphics Books’ reprint series. This includes a couple of genuine rarities, as well as 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 ― classics all.

The Complete Crumb Comics - Vol 6

The Complete Crumb Comics Vol.5

Title: The Complete Crumb Comics Vol.5 : Happy Hippy Comix
Author: Robert Crumb
Language: English
Adult content

    Continuing our ongoing commitment to keep this perennial, canonic series in print, we re-present the most often-demanded volumes in The Complete Crumb Comics series. Vol. 5: "Happy Hippy Comix" spotlights the period from late-1967 through 1969, including the second issue of Zap Comix, the introduction of Angelfood McSpade, Mr. Natural, a long Fritz story, an alternate version of the Cheap Thrills album cover, and more.

The Complete Crumb Comics Vol.5

The Complete Crumb Comics Vol.4

Title: The Complete Crumb Comics, Vol. 4: Mr. Sixties!
Author: Robert Crumb
Language: English
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    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.

The Complete Crumb Comics, Vol. 4

The Complete Crumb Comics Vol.3

Title: The Complete Crumb Comics - Vol. 3 [1964-1966] Starring Fritz The Cat
Author: Robert Crumbs
Language: English
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   The Complete Crumb Comics Vol. 3: "Starring Fritz the Cat" includes stories that begin to build the Crumb legend: the Fritz stories from Harvey Kurtzman's Help! magazine in 1965, plus some of Crumb's long-lost American Greeting cards from the '60s, plus the story of Crumb's first acid trip.

    This volume is part of the most comprehensive Crumb collection in print and boasts a wide variety of material: Not only Crumb's well-known comics, but little-seen commercial art and rarely-if-ever-seen treasures from private collections and the artist's personal archives.

The Complete Crumb Comics - Volume 3

The Complete Crumb Comics Vol.2

Title: The Complete Crumb Comics Vol. 2: Some More Early Years of Bitter Struggle
Author: Robert Crumb's
Language: English
Adult content

   "Some More Early Years of Bitter Struggle" features several key stories from Crumb's pre-underground, homemade comics of the early 1960s (such as Farb and Arcade), with stories featuring early Crumb characters Fritz the Cat, Jim, Mabel, and Little Billy Bean.

   This volume is part of the most comprehensive Crumb collection in print and boasts a wide variety of material: Not only Crumb's well-known comics, but little-seen commercial art and rarely-if-ever-seen treasures from private collections and the artist's personal archives.

The Complete Crumb Comics Vol. 2

The Complete Crumb Comics, Vol.1

Title: The Complete Crumb Comics, Vol. 1: The Early Years of Bitter Struggle
Author: Robert Crumb
Language: English
Adult content

   Robert Crumb is one of America's most radical, incisive, and talented cartoonists.
The Complete Crumb Comics: The Early Years of Bitter Struggle is the first of a multi volume series, and includes previously unpublished strips created from 1958 to 1962.

   Crumb's earliest works, some written when he was as young as 15, range from an encounter with Dracula ("I didn't try to escape Dracula, my mind was concentrated [sic] on one thing . . . I was thirsty . . . very thirsty") to Nikita Khrushchev's 1958 visit to the U.S. ("Ever watchful guards stay with Khruschev during a refreshing hot bath.").

   Crumb aficionados and neophytes alike should rejoice in this classic collection of comic strips; sketchbooks; underground comics; dramatic and autobiographical strips; classic cartoon creations Fritz the Cat and Mr. Natural; and a pithy, biographical preface by Crumb's friend Marty Pahls.

The Complete Crumb Comics, Vol 1

Robert Crumb - The Religious Experience of Dick Philip K

Title: The Religious Experience of Dick Philip K
Author: Robert Crumb
Language: English
Adult content

   In 1986, the cartoonist Robert Crumb published an eight-page story, “The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick,” in the underground comic book Weirdo. 

The combination of these two singular personalities seems both appropriate and somehow incongruous, and I’m still not sure how I feel about it. Crumb wasn’t a fan of Dick, or of science fiction in general, as we read in the new companion book to an exhibition of his work in Paris: “Crumb is known to have no interest in science fiction and no acquaintance with Philip K. Dick’s novels, but what seems to have interested him here is the undecidable nature of the writer’s experience: was this a schizophrenic episode or the authentic mystical experience of a spirit touched by divine grace?” (His primary source appears to have been Dick’s famous speech “How To Build A Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later,” along with the interview with Gregg Rickman reprinted as The Last Testament.) Crumb was fifteen years younger than Dick, and they never seem to have met, but they had a number of surprising affinities. 

   Both spent much of their lives in the Bay Area; both were major artists who first made their mark in vaguely disreputable genres; and both were indelibly linked with psychedelic culture, although they developed the most distinctive elements of their styles long before their earliest encounters with drugs. They were both obsessive record collectors who must have haunted some of the same music shops a decade apart, although their tastes, with one possible exception, were different—Dick preferred classical, Crumb the jazz and blues of the twenties and thirties.

   Yet it isn’t surprising that Crumb would be drawn to Dick’s story, which would have been common knowledge in the circles in which he was moving. His comic adaptation opens with an account of Dick’s mystical vision in March 1974, when he had a wisdom tooth removed under sodium pentothal and received a prescription for painkillers. When a woman came to his house to deliver the medication, he was struck by the fish necklace she was wearing, which she explained was a symbol used by the early Christians. At that moment, Dick was hit by a sudden revelation, as freely adapted by Crumb:

   I remembered who I was and where I was. In an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, it all came back to me. And not only could I remember it but I could see it. The girl was a secret Christian and so was I. We lived in fear of detection by the Romans. We had to communicate in cryptic signs. She had just told me all this, and it was true. I saw the world as the world of the apostolic Christian times of ancient Rome, when the fish sign was in use.

   Dick was never able to explain to his own satisfaction what the experience truly signified, apart from what it implied about the unreality of time itself. But it left him with a sense that the Rome of the early Christian era somehow underlay the visible world, leading to a series of equally odd events, including a truly inexplicable incident in which he correctly diagnosed his young son with an inguinal hernia, after falling into a trance while listening to “Strawberry Fields Forever.

Robert Crumb - The Religious Experience of Dick Philip K

Robert Crumb - Mystic Funnies vol2

Title: Mystic Funnies vol2
Author: Robert Crumb
Language: English
Adult content

   The second instalment of Robert Crumb's latest series centres on an unfortunate every-man named. The Moron in Bad Karma an epic quest for the answer to the question. What's it all mean? also starring Fairy Godmother and Mr.Natural, who wants to talk to you about the power of the media man.

Robert Crumb - Mystic Funnies vol2

Robert Crumb - Mystic Funnies vol1

Title: Mystic Funnies vol1
Author: Robert Crumb
Language: English
Adult content

   Flakey learns about love, sainthood, and the meaning of life as Mr. Natural explains things to him in graphic terms. Shuman the Human makes some dramatic entrances, definitely representing a baser point of view. And R. Crumb's women are as voluptuous and surprising as ever.

Robert Crumb - Mystic Funnies vol1

Robert Crumb - Art and Beauty Magazine vol1

Title: Art and Beauty Magazine vol1
Author: Robert Crumb
Language: English
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   One of America's most celebrated cartoonists, Robert Crumb helped define cartoon and punk subcultures of the 1960s and 1970s with comic strips like Fritz the Cat, Mr. Natural, and Keep on Truckin'. The open sexuality of his work, paired with frequent self-deprecation and a free, almost stream-of-consciousness style, have made Crumb into a global voice and a renowned contemporary artist. Originally published by Kitchen Sink Press in 1996, Art & Beauty #1 is at once a satirical take on aesthetics and a continued exploration of Crumb's subversion of sexuality and mainstream values. Drawings of women in positions ranging from lascivious to modest or mid-sport are accompanied by quotations, many of which are from artists like Leonardo da Vinci and Harvey Kurtzman. 

   Mining his own obsessions and fantasies, Crumb reimagines the history of art, challenging notions of beauty, along with society's mores and expectations of propriety around the female form. The second volume of Art & Beauty, published in 2003, expanded on the first, adding all new drawings (also of women) and quotations, likewise taken from the history of art and aesthetics. 

   The effect of both volumes is undeniably destabilizing. The images appeal to a purely erotic sensibility, which in turn is undercut by the inclusion of highfalutin and frequently philosophical prose. The images drag philosophy back down to earth, while the writing challenges the pure eroticism of Crumb's drawings. The eagerly awaited Art & Beauty #3 is released for the first time as part of Art & Beauty Magazine: Drawing by R. Crumb published on the occasion of Crumb's exhibition at David Zwirner, London that debuts the new work he created for the magazine's third issue. 

   Presenting all three volumes in one book, Art & Beauty Magazine is arranged chronologically and guides the reader through the twenty-year history of Crumb's magazine, from the earliest images in the 1990s to the most recent drawings completed in 2016. Paul Morris, longtime gallerist and supporter of Crumb's practice, writes a foreword that contextualizes this body of work and the artist's career as a whole. 

   This beautiful edition, with a cover specially designed by Crumb for its release, makes the initial two issues available for the first time in over ten years, and presents the new and previously unpublished material from the third. For seasoned supporters and novices alike, Art & Beauty Magazine: Drawing by R. Crumb is a wonderful window into Crumb's world of bodies and ideas, art and beauty. A limited edition of 500 signed copies will be published as well.

Robert Crumb - Art and Beauty Magazine vol1

Robert Crumb - Book of Genesis

Title: Book of Genesis
Author: Robert Crumb
Language: English
Adult content

Envisioning the first book of the bible like no one before him, R. Crumb, the legendary illustrator, reveals here the story of Genesis in a profoundly honest and deeply moving way. Originally thinking that he would do a take off 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 in a version primarily assembled from the translations of Robert Alter and the King James bible.

   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 interpretation 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’ve 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 90, 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 these people, the Hebrews, were 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 5 years of painstaking work, is a tapestry of masterly detail and storytelling which celebrates the astonishing diversity of the one of our greatest artistic geniuses.

   Nominated for three 2010 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards: Best Adaptation from Another Work, Best Graphic Album, Best Writer/Artist. 

Robert Crumb - Book of Genesis

Individualism A Reader - Libertarianism

Title: Individualism A Reader - Libertarianism
Author: Aaron Powell
Language: English

    Individualism is one of most criticized and least understood ideas in social and political thought. Is individualism the ability to act independently amidst a web of social forces? A vital element of personal liberty and a shield against conformity? Does it lead to or away from unifying individuals with communities?

    Individualism: A Reader provides a wealth of illuminating essays from the 17th to the early 20th centuries. In 26 selections from 25 writers individualism is explained and defended, often from unusual perspectives. This anthology includes not only selections from well-known writers, but also many lesser-known pieces-reprinted here for the first time-by philosophers, social theorists, and economists who have been overlooked in standard accounts of individualism.

   The depth and complexity of ideas about individualism are reflected in the six sections in this collection. The first examines individuality generally, with the following five detailing social, moral, political, religious, and economic individualism. Throughout, individualism is analyzed and defended through the lenses of classical liberalism, free-market libertarianism, individual anarchism, voluntary socialism, religious individualism, abolitionism, free thought, and radical feminism.

    Both richly historical and sharply contemporary, Individualism: A Reader provides a multitude of perspectives and insights on personal liberty and the history of freedom.


Individualism A Reader - Libertarianism

Milo Manara - The Model

Title: The Model
Author: Milo Manara
Language: English
Adult content

   The great Manara presents to us, in this lush art book, the history of women modeling whether for painters, sculptors, as muses to well known artists and creators of all types, and of course, as modern-day advertising models and cover girls. 

The whole range of feminine beauty is there as only he can so sensuously bring it out!

The Model

Milo Manara - The Art of Spanking

Title: The Art of Spanking
Author: Milo Manara
Language: English
Adult content

   A classic tome where the heroine is introduced to the spicy pleasures of being administered- and administering- spankings! 

   Manara beautifully and abundantly illustrates the tongue-in-(ahem)-cheek text. Luxuriously presented trade paper back in sepia and black colours and with flaps.

The Art of Spanking

Milo Manara - Piranese: The Prison Planet

Title: Piranese: The Prison Planet
Author: Milo Manara
Language: English
Adult content

   Nobody knows if Paradise exists. But Hell is real. It's Piranese, the prison planet, where all the outcasts of the empire are held. No one can escape and the hope of survival is very slim. 

   But all of a sudden that order is disturbed by the appearance of a young woman who has avoided the genetic control imposed by the guards. Will she be the liberator that everyone is hoping for?

Piranese: The Prison Planet

Milo Manara - Butterscotch 2

Title: Butterscotch 2
Author: Milo Manara
Language: English
Adult content

   How would you like to become invisible so you can do with women whatever you like? Especially in public! Imagine a gorgeous Manara girl writhing in ecstasy because of the dirty tricks you¹re performing on her... in a high class restaurant! 

And that¹s only the beginning.

Butterscotch 2