The R. Crumb Sketchbook Vol. 9

The R. Crumb Sketchbook Vol. 9

Paperback (01 Aug 2002)

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Publisher's Synopsis

R. Crumb is undoubtedly the foremost cartoonist of the latter 20th Century, and his sketchbooks, in which has drawn for 40 years, might rank as his finest achievement. This comprehensive series reproduces these sketchbooks in facsimile form, offering a rare and often raw insight into Crumb's creative process and development. Volume 9, covering 1972-1974, represents one of the more inquisitve and soul-searching periods in this phenomenal artist's life, coinciding with his rise to fame and rejection of the late '60s hippie counterculture that made him famous. In b/w.

About the Publisher

Fantagraphics Books

Fantagraphics Books

Fantagraphics Books has been a leading proponent of comics as a legitimate form of art and literature since it began publishing the critical trade magazine The Comics Journal in 1976. By the early 1980s, Fantagraphics found itself at the forefront of the burgeoning movement to establish comics as a medium as eloquent and expressive as the more established popular arts of film, literature, poetry, et al. Fantagraphics quickly established a reputation as an advocacy publisher that specialized in seeking out and publishing the kind of innovative work that traditional comics corporations who dealt almost exclusively in super-heroes and fantasy either didn?t know existed or wouldn?t touch: serious, dramatic, historical, journalistic, political, and satirical work by a new generation of alternative cartoonists as well as many artists who gained prominence as part of the seminal underground comix movement of the '60s. Fantagraphics has since gained an international reputation for its literate and audacious editorial standards and its exacting production values.

Book information

ISBN: 9781560974901
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Imprint: Fantagraphics Books
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 128
Weight: 535g
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine width: 12mm