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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.

Skaffa tryckt exemplar. The R. Crumb Handbook. Crumb , Peter Poplaski. Crumb Handbook tells the story of how a loser-schmuck became a culturalcon, and is more than just another celebrity tell-all sexploitation. Thisrand new hardback collection of original cartoons with never beforeublished work, takes the reader on a unique journey through the life andimes of one of the 20th century's most notorious and influential counterulture artists.

With over pages of cartoons and photographs, Crumb's oftenontroversially-regarded views toward Disneyland, growing up in America,ippie love, art galleries, and turning 60 are revealed. In Crumb got his first real job as an illustrator at American Greetings in Cleveland. The tedious work had him on the brink of quitting until he was promoted to the role of illustrator for the slightly edgier Hi-Brow line.

After sending an early Fritz the Cat cartoon to Kurtzman at Help! Soon Crumb was working as Kurtzman's assistant at the short-lived Help! The turning point in Crumb's career came in , when he took some LSD. He stopped writing his characters from life and created his most inspired character, Mr. Zap Comics, consisting entirely of Crumb art, debuted in , with Crumb and his wife selling the first issue on San Francisco street corners.

Underground comics are now remembered as an indispensable part of the era, but it was Zap that blazed the trail. Crumb's rambling, hallucinogenic, sexually explicit cartoons became the visual expression of the Haight-Ashbury scene.