Adapted from the comic book by Daniel Clowes, this screenplay, written by Clowes and Director Terry Zwigoff, reimagines the original story, developing an exhilarating, expansive variant, while maintaining the hilarious and melancholy tone of the source no
Crumb's most notorious character, Fritz the Cat, actually appeared in only a handful of stories in the 1960s and '70s, yet his legend lives on, largely in part to Ralph Bakshi's atrocious animated film based on the strip (and which prompted Crumb to immed
A unique insight into one of the most celebrated artistic minds of the 20th Century, this collection of 50 letters spans the years 1958-1977, during the course of which a pensive high-school reject emerged into the limelight as American's most celebrated
The popularity of the graphic genre continues to rage, and The Best American Comics is a diverse, exciting annual selection for fans and newcomers alike. The inaugural volume includes stories culled from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers, magazi
Gathered here are the collected works of the titans of adults comics legendary underground cartoonist R. Crumb and the "high priest of comic-book naturalism" (Newsweek) Harvey Pekar. The comic collision of these underground luminaries is funny, obsessi
Phoebe Gloeckner's first book collects her highly praised autobiographical accounts of a teenage girl's loss of innocence through sex, drugs, rape, and AIDS. This edition includes eight pages of new material.Long respected as one of the finest and most or
The R. Crumb Handbook is a brand new take on the life, trials and ideas of one of the most influential cartoonists of the last 40 years. Wry, self-deprecating, and candid, this is an exceptionally revealing and unexpectedly moving visual biography. Crumb
