![]() margins & edges effecting inner front & back covers, but pages not brittle & with barely any acidic scent very light, small wave-creases at lower corners of page leaves. Interior fine except for browning of just-above-newspaper quality pages esp. In relatively fine condition, approximately equivalent to a 6.0 grade per Fogel's, CGC, etc.: Mild rubbing, creasing & discoloration of front & back covers one very small closed tear-fold at lower right corner of front cover mild browning & soiling to white margins of back cover. Pekar, a longtime file clerk at a Veterans Affairs hospital, started writing American Splendor at the suggestion of the cartoonist R. An essential Crumb classic from the golden age of underground comix, for the adult collector. This is the first printing of September 1972, indicated by Golden Gate Publishing Company reference & fifty-cent cover price (subsequent printings are published by Kitchen Sink Press with progressively higher cover prices). Weirdo was a magazine-sized comics anthology created by Robert Crumb and published by Last Gasp from 1981 to 1993.Featuring cartoonists both new and old, Weirdo served as a 'low art' counterpoint to its contemporary highbrow Raw, co-edited by Art Spiegelman. 1: Crazy Ed" is notable for being written by Harvey Pekar, who would later go on to write the American Splendor series, many of whose numbers were also illustrated by Crumb. The back cover episode, "Brilliant American Maniacs Series No. The book is rounded out with a color section that includes rare album art for various jazz and blues greats, as. Crumb $uck$$e$ Story" & more, all exemplifying his darkest of humor & fantasies in his obsessive-misanthropic takes on the human condition. Robert Crumb Harvey Pekar SIGNED American Splendor Comics SC PSA/DNA AUTOGRAPHED Breathe easy. Also included are Crumb's first collaborations with the late writer Charles Bukowski, including the chapbook 'Bring Me Your Love,' as well as several collaborations with Harvey Pekar from his autobiographical series American Splendor. Legend has it that Crumb wanted to end any further treatments of Fritz after being disappointed in Ralph Bakshi's animated film by killing him off (to no avail). ![]() ![]() Featuring "Fritz the Cat-"Superstar"" in which his famous feline creation is dispatched by a bird-woman with an ice pick. Both Robert Crumb (Self-Loathing Comics), who defined the underground comics of the 1960s, and Harvey Pekar (Cancer Year), whose autobiographical comic (. The one & only issue of this quintessential production by Robert Crumb, subtitled "A Comic for the Broad Masses!" on front cover. San Francisco, CA: The Golden Gate Publishing Company, 1972. Introduction to Pekars 1986 anthology American Splendor, Robert Crumb describes Pekars method: He writes the stories in a crudely laid-out comic page. Weirdo was a magazine-sized comics anthology created by Robert Crumb and published by Last Gasp from 1981 to 1993.Featuring cartoonists both new and old, Weirdo served as a 'low art' counterpoint to its contemporary highbrow Raw, co-edited by Art Spiegelman. Crumb, Robert Pekar, Harvey The People's Comics
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