R. Crumb

David Zane Mairowitz

Part illustrated biography, part comics adaptation, R. Crumb's Kafka is a vibrant biography that examines this Czech writer and his works in a way that a bland textbook never could! R. Crumb's Kafka is a work of art in its own right, a very rare example of what happens when one very idiosyncratic artist absorbs another into his world view without obliterating the individuality of the absorbed one. Crumb's art is filled with Kafka's insurmountable neuroses. They are all there: Gregor Samsa's sister, the luscious Milena Jesenska, the Advocate's 'nurse' Leni, Olda and Frieda, and the ravishing Dora Diamant—drawn in that mixture of self-command, tantalizing knowingness and sly sexuality—that Amazonian randiness and thick-limbed physicality that is Crumb.

R. Crumb's Kafka

Charles Bukowski

Avi Pardo

Kaptan yemeğe çıktı ve tayfalar gemiyi ele geçirdi

This book, helping us to see beyond the cliche Kafkaesque, is illustrated by legendary underground artist Robert Crumb.

Introducing Kafka

Annotated comic panels inspired by the life and writings of Franz Kafka offer insight into his philosophies and style beyond common stereotypes, in a volume that introduces the plots of many of his works and features a complementary mini-biography. Reprint.

Kafka

Harvey Pekar

Artists R. Crumb, Gary Dumm, and others illustrate the author's stories from twelve months in his life, when he went from being an unknown comic book writer to being famous with the release of the film, "American Splendor."

American Splendor : Stories

Our Movie Year

The Complete Crumb: Happy hippy comix

Collects some of the author's comics that reflect his relationships with women and his passion for sex.

My Troubles with Women

In this collection of interviews that spans from the late 1960s to the beginning of the twenty-first century, the comic artist proves to be iconoclastic, opinionated, and impervious to the commercial moods of the public

Conversations

A collection of cartoonist Crumb's work, ranging from his earliest comics published in the mid sixties, to work completed in the nineties with his comentaries interspersed thoughout the book.

The R. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book

Weirdo

Presents a collection of the cartoonist's personal correspondence with two of his friends, revealing his career and personal struggles, artistic development, and ultimate success.

Robert Crumb Letters 1958-1977

Your Vigor for Life Appalls Me

R. Crumb is undoubtedly the foremost cartoonist of the latter 20th Century, and his sketchbooks - in which he has written and drawn continually from the early 1960s to present - might rank as his finest achievement. Fantagraphics is proud to present these sketchbooks, in facsimile form, as a comprehensive series of volumes that will eventually run well over 4,000 pages. Volume 10, covering mid-1975 through early 1977, is the latest, and it represents one of the more inquisitive and soul-searching periods in this phenomenal artist's life. These sketchbooks also stand as a monumental existential document. Crumb repeatedly expresses, through a variety of penetrating and coruscating visual metaphors, the central existentialist struggle: to live in the full light of consciousness with all the risk, pain and suffering that entails. Nowhere is this more apparent than in this tenth volume, which coincides with the disintegration of the late-1960s counterculture that made him famous. Like every volume in the series, though, Volume 10 offers the full panoply of a life of perceptions rendered with consummate artistry. Available in simultaneous hardcover and paperback formats.

June 1975-February 1977

R. Crumb Sketchbook

Call Out: Words of wisdom from R. Crumb hisself ("sic"): All my life I've loved women and hated 'em at the same time, often at the exact same moment! ~I realized I was a geek and I wasn't going to make it with the girls. I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist. ~The only burning passion I'm sure I have, is the passion for sex. ~My personal obsession for big women interferes with some people's enjoyment of my work. I knew it was weird and disturbing and even offensive to a lot of people, particularly women. But I couldn't keep it out of the comics. I would always try to give it some sort of metaphorical sense because I derived such masturbatory pleasure out of drawing these women in bizarre situations with these little guys doing stuff to them.

Portraits of Women

Gotta Have 'em

An accomplished musician on banjo, guitar and ukelele and an avid collector of early jazz and blues records, Robert Crumb constantly writes and draws about music of all kinds. Brought together for the first time from all stages of his career these strips range from the silly to the serious. Real people and real problems are the substance of stories like Jelly Roll Morton's Voodoo Curse and Patton while Crumb's celebrated light-hearted zaniness can be seen in Cubist Be-Bop Comics, The Old Songs are The Best Songs and Sunny side up. Crumb is as obssessed with music as he is with sex, and his extraordinary talent shines throughout this collection.

R. Crumb Draws the Blues

The Story of Oggie and the Beanstalk

Big Yum Yum Book

This collection spotlights the artist at the peak of his craft in Weirdo, a comic that ran from 1980 to 1993 and paid homage to Mad, Humbug, and other classic humor magazines of the 1950s. Robert Crumb continues to create underground comics. He lives in France.

His Early Period, 1981-1985

Weirdo Art of Robert Crumb

Mark Thompson

The Complete Crumb Comics series comprises the complete works of legendary cartoonist R. Crumb, presented chronologically, including his entire oeuvre and unpublished strips and illustrations from the artist's private archives. Each volume includes a new cover by Crumb and a lengthy introduction, usually by Crumb but occasionally from others close to Crumb, such as brother Maxon and son Jesse.

The Complete Crumb: R. Crumb versus the sisterhood

An incomparable, ongoing masterpiece. R. Crumb is undoubtedly the foremost cartoonist of the latter 20th Century, and his sketchbooks-in which he has written and drawn continually from the early '60s to present-might rank as his finest achievement.

Unprecedented insight into the untamed art and psyche of R. Crumb For more than 40 years, legendary American artist Robert Crumb has documented his nightly dreams in a meticulously kept private journal. This material has stood as a guarded secret in a career defined by an impish compulsion to publically self-disclose. All of the artist's well-documented preoccupations are present and accounted for--rampant egomania, insatiable lust, profound self-disgust, the sad beauty of old America, the moral bankruptcy of new America and the fool's errand quest for spiritual enlightenment--but here they are entirely untamed, springing forth from forces beyond even his control. Published for the first time, the complete Dream Diaries offer readers a deep, dark look under the hood of one of America's most aggressively dynamic comedic voices. Widely considered the greatest cartoonist of the 20th century, Robert Crumb (born 1943) drew comics from a very young age. After a brief career in greeting-card design in Cleveland, in 1965 the young artist discovered LSD, and headed for San Francisco, where he published Zap Comix 1, reinventing the comics medium. In 1994 he was the subject of an acclaimed documentary film by Terry Zwigoff. His adaptation of The Book of Genesis was published in 2009 and the original art for the project was exhibited internationally, most notably at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, in 2009, and as part of the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013. His most recent books include Bible of Filth, Art & Beauty Magazine and (with Aline Kominsky-Crumb) Drawn Together. Crumb lives and works in Southern France.

R. Crumb's Dream Diary

This exclusive collection of haunting images of people and places reveals the tender side of R. Crumb, a 1960s counter culture artist who broke into the fine art world with great acclaim.

R. Crumb

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