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Complete Crumb Comics | |
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Publication information | |
Publisher | Fantagraphics Books |
Schedule | irregular |
Genre | Underground comix |
Publication date | 1987 – 2005 |
No. of issues | 17 |
Creative team | |
Created by | Robert Crumb |
The Complete Crumb Comics is an award-winning series of collections from Fantagraphics Books which was intended to reproduce the entire body of Americancartoonist and comic book artist/writer Robert Crumb's comics work in chronological order, beginning with his fanzine work from as early as 1958.
While the series was intended to be complete, there is some material missing (most notably The Yum Yum Book, the copyright of which is owned by Crumb's ex-wife Dana,[1] but which has otherwise been in print as Big Yum Yum Book: the Story of Oggie and the Beanstalk).
Its publication is considered to have brought more serious attention to Crumb's oeuvre, and was one of the earliest attempts to collect a cartoonist's full body of work.[2] The series lasted 17 volumes and was published up until 2005 (covering Crumb's work up to 1992). After this, Crumb's work was to be collected in individually titled collections, and not be part of the official numbered series.[note 1]
Volumes[edit]
All volumes have been published at some point in both softcover and hardcover editions. Two box sets have also been produced, collected Volumes #1-5 and #6-10, with a slip case and signed plate, limited to 400 sets each.
The first two volumes contain material going back as far as Crumb's teenage years, from before he had had his comics professionally published. Some consider this material to be non-essential, and that it would be better for a newcomer to start with later volumes.[note 2][note 3]
Vol | Year | Title | Period | ISBN | Notes |
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1 | Oct 1987 | The Early Years of Bitter Struggle | 1958–1962 | ISBN0-930193-42-3 | Introduction by Marty Pahls Expanded in 2012[2] |
2 | May 1988 | Some More Early Years of Bitter Struggle | 1959–1964 | ISBN978-0-930193-62-1 | Introduction by Marty Pahls |
3 | 1988 | Starring Fritz the Cat | 1960-1966 | ISBN0-930193-79-2 | 1989 Harvey Award for Best Domestic Reprint Project[3] Introduction by Marty Pahls |
4 | Dec 1988 | Mr. Sixties! | 1966–1967 | ISBN978-0-930193-79-9 | Reproduces Zap Comix #0 and #1, as well as Crumb's contributions to the underground newspaper Yarrowstalks |
5 | 1990 | Happy Hippy Comix | 1967–1969 | ISBN0-930193-92-X | Reprints stories from East Village Other (1967-1968), Zap #2-3 (1968), Bijou Funnies #1 (1968), Motor City Comics # 1 (1969), and other publications (1968-1969) |
6 | 1990 | On the Crest of a Wave | 1969–1970 | ISBN1-56097-057-X | Reprints stories from Big Ass #1, Zap #4, Snatch #3, Jiz #1, Despair, and Motor City #2. Also includes 16-page color section (with covers from Gothic Blimp Works) 1991 Harvey Award for Best Domestic Reprint Project[4] Includes the notoriously X-rated Joe Blow |
7 | 1991 | Hot 'n' Heavy | 1970–1971 | ISBN978-1-56097-061-3 | 1992 Harvey Award for Best Domestic Reprint Project[5] |
8 | 1992 | Featuring the Death of Fritz the Cat | 1971–1972 | ISBN1-56097-076-6 | |
9 | 1992 | R. Crumb versus the Sisterhood | 1972–1973 | ISBN978-1-56097-107-8 | Introduction by Crumb Features work from XYZ ComicsZap #6, Tales from the Leather Nun, and others; as well as collaborations with Harvey Pekar, and illustrations from the 1972 cookbook Eat It, written by Crumb's ex-wife Dana. |
10 | 1994 | Crumb Advocates Violent Overthrow | 1973–1975 | ISBN1-56097-138-X | 1995 Harvey Award for Best Domestic Reprint Project[6] |
11 | 1995 | MR. NATURAL COMMITTED TO A MENTAL INSTITUTION!!! | 1975–1977 | ISBN978-1-56097-172-6 | 1996 Eisner Award for Best Archival Collection;[7] 1996 Harvey Award for Best Domestic Reprint Project[8] |
12 | 1996 | We're Livin' in the 'Lap o' Luxury'! | 1976–1979 | ISBN978-1-56097-264-8 | |
13 | 1998 | The Season of the Snoid | 1976–1980 | ISBN978-1-56097-296-9 | |
14 | 2001 | The Early 1980s and Weirdo Magazine | c. 1981–1983 | ISBN978-1-56097-413-0 | earliest Weirdo comics |
15 | 2001 | Featuring Mode O'Day and her Pals | 1983–1985 | ISBN978-1-56097-413-0 | Introduction by Peter Bagge |
16 | 2002 | The Mid-1980s: More Years of Valiant Struggle | 1985–1987 | ISBN1-56097-460-5 | |
17 | 2005 | Cave Wimp, Mode O'Day, Aline 'N' Bob, R. Crumb Goes to the Academy Awards | 1988–1992 | ISBN1-56097-537-7 |
Awards[edit]
Year | Organization | Volume | Award |
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1989 | Harvey Awards | 3 | Best Domestic Reprint Project |
1991 | 6 | ||
1992 | 7 | ||
1995 | 10 | ||
1996 | Eisner Awards | 11 | Best Archival Collection |
1997 | Harvey Awards | 12 | Best Domestic Reprint Project |
Notes[edit]
- ^Volume 17 of 'The Complete Crumb Comics', which will be the final volume in the numbered series of compilations. Subsequent volumes will be individually titled collections of various bodies of work, such as 'Hup' and 'Mystic Funnies.'
- ^'Avoid the first two volumes of Complete Crumb consist of early work from his teen-age years and early '20s, and thus are for serious fans who want to see how far he's progressed. It's awkward, juvenile material . . . and really not the place for neophytes to start. Wait until you get a feel for his later work and personality before diving into these books.'
Mautner, Chris (2009-12-21). 'Comics College: Robert Crumb'. Comic Book Resources. Retrieved 2011-04-19. - ^'. . . a good starting point would probably be somewhere in the middle of the Complete Crumb volumes. Why the middle? Well, this is a thorough synopsis of his career, and the first couple of volumes are kind of short on comics, focusing more on his illustration work with Hallmark and some other various things.'
whitey (2004-12-28). 'Crumb, Robert'. Optical Sloth. Retrieved 2011-04-19.
References[edit]
- ^Pahls, Marty. Introduction to The Complete Crumb Comics Vol 2. Fantagraphics Books 1988. ISBN978-0-930193-62-1
- ^ abHeer, Jeet (2012-03-05). 'Crumb in the Beginning'. The Comics Journal. Retrieved 2012-03-06.
- ^'1989 Harvey Award Winners'. Retrieved 2011-04-19.
- ^'1991 Harvey Award Winners'. Archived from the original on 2010-11-09. Retrieved 2011-04-19.
- ^'1992 Harvey Award Winners'. Retrieved 2011-04-19.
- ^'1995 Harvey Award Winners'. Archived from the original on 2010-07-16. Retrieved 2011-04-19.
- ^'Complete List of Eisner Award Winners'. San Diego Comic-Con International. Archived from the original on 2011-04-27. Retrieved 2011-04-19.
- ^'1996 Harvey Award Winners'. Archived from the original on 2016-03-15. Retrieved 2011-04-19.
External links[edit]
- Series product page at Fantagraphics Books' website
- Frauenfelder, Mark (2004-02-05). 'The Complete Crumb Comics, Vol 1-16'. Mad Professor. Retrieved 2011-04-19.
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Nominated for three 2010 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards: From Creation to the death of Joseph, here are all 50 chapters of the Book of Genesis, revealingly illustrated as never before.
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 we 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.