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The Early Years of Bitter Struggle - Robert Crumb (Fantagraphics Books November 1996)128 pages.8.4 x 0.4 x 10.9 inches
\"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Complete Crumb Comics: The Early Years of Bitter Struggle is the first of a multivolume series, and includes previously unpublished strips created from 1958 to 1962.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 consentrated [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.\" - goodreads
\"This long out-of-print first volume of the multiple Harvey and Eisner award-winning Complete Crumb Comics series has been one of our most demanded reprints of the last several years...
Growing up, Robert and his brother Charles often created their own comic books. These \"home-made\" editions were usually produced in editions of one. As such, many have been lost to time or private collections. What hasn\'t comprises much of the first two volumes of The Complete Crumb series. Their creation continued throughout the 1950s and into the early \'60s and eventually the content of Crumb\'s work gradually matured from the light-hearted, funny animal antics of earlier years to stories that flashed signals of what we now recognize as \"true Crumb.\"...
This volume also includes several early Fritz the Cat stories (a.k.a. \"Animal Town Comics\"), and the classic \"Treasure Island Days\" (as seen in the Crumb film) and is rounded out with other strips, diary entries and sketches that will be a treasure trove for Crumb fans, all defining work from Crumb\'s formative years as a cartoonist, spanning the years 1958-1962 (when Crumb was ages 15-19) and featuring material from other \"home-made\" comics of the era. This is Ground Zero for a man who may well be the greatest cartoonist who ever lived.\" - Fantagraphics Books
About the artist (from goodreads):Robert Dennis Crumb (born August 30, 1943)— is an American artist, illustrator, and musician recognized for the distinctive style of his drawings and his critical, satirical, subversive view of the American mainstream.
Crumb was a founder of the underground comix movement and is regarded as its most prominent figure. Though one of the most celebrated of comic book artists, Crumb\'s entire career has unfolded outside the mainstream comic book publishing industry. One of his most recognized works is the \"Keep on Truckin\'\" comic, which became a widely distributed fixture of pop culture in the 1970s. Others are the characters \"Devil Girl\", \"Fritz the Cat\", and \"Mr. Natural\".
He was inducted into the comic book industry\'s Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1991.
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