R. Crumb

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  • Bibliography:
    72 Books
  • First Book:
    October 1968
  • Latest Book:
    January 2018
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Book List in Order: 72 titles

  • R. Crumb's Head

    R. CRUMB'S HEAD COMIX by Robert Crumb - Softcover (1968). Second printing. Very Good Condition. Cover and all inside pages are bright, clean and smooth. Binding is tight. Only some light surface denting in lower corner of spine. Stored smoke free. Or...

  • R. Crumb's Head Comix

  • The Complete Crumb Comics Volume 2: Some More Early Years of Bitter Struggle

    COMPLETE CRUMB COMICS 2....(Hard cover / Graphic Novel)... Featuring a COMPLETE CRUMB COMICS hard cover / graphic novel....Artwork / writing by : Robert Crumb...Cover by; Robert Crumb....1st Fantagraphics Printing...

  • The Complete Crumb Comics Volume 3: Starring Fritz the Cat

    The multiple award-winning The Complete Crumb Comics series—the definitive, comprehensive series reprinting the entirety of Crumb's oeuvre—enters the mid-1980s with this 16th volume, a period that many critics consider to be the richest of ...

  • Complete Crumb Comics: Hot 'N' Heavy

    LIMITED HARDCOVER FIRST EDITION. Published by Fantagraphics Books November 1991. $39.95 cover price. 144 total pages. Black and White with Full Color Section. 8 1/2-inch by 11-inch pictorial hardcover. "The Complete Crumb Comics Volume 7. This series...

  • The Complete Crumb Comics Volume 6: On the Crest of a Wave

    by R. Crumb
    Back in print after being sold out! The years 1968 and 1969 saw an explosion of comix from R. Crumb, all collected here in the fifth volume. Mr. Natural, Angelfood McSpade, and Fritz the Cat - pl...

  • The Complete Crumb Comics Volume 7: Hot 'n' Heavy

    The seventh volume of The Complete Crumb Comics spotlights Crumb's work from 1970 and 1971, the peak years of Crumb's hippie stardom. Included from this era is the entirety of Crumb's work from underground classics such as ZAP, The East Village Other...

  • My Troubles with Women

    , approximately 78 pages, a collection of comics by Robert Crumb, some with his wife, Aline Komisky-Crumb, and some by Aline, dating from the 1980s to 1990s, black and white illustrations with captions...

  • R. Crumb Sketchbook, Mid 1965- Early 1966



  • R. Crumb Draws the Blues

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  • R. Crumb Sketchbook, 1964-1965

    The first in a series released by Fantagraphic Books and the perfect gift for a fan of R. Crumb's career or any art lover who appreciates seeing the . This is his sketchbook from 1964-65, so what you get are pages and pages of studies: of his first w...

  • R. Crumb Sketchbook, Volume 3

    These selections from 1966 include complete strips, a rough of "Keep on Truckin'," parody covers and ads, portraits, still lifes, urban landscapes, and other scenes transformed by Crumb's searching eye and obsessive pencil.

    Every aspect of Rob...

  • The Book of Mr. Natural

    By Robert Crumb
    SC, 8 x 11, 128 pages, BW, $12.95
    ISBN 978-1-56097-194-8
    Robert Crumb's The Book of Mr. Natural is probably the most famous underground comix character of all time, recognizable even to "civili...

  • R. Crumb Sketchbook, Volume 4

  • R. Crumb Sketchbook, Volume 5

    Personally selected by the artist, these drawings include much material never seen before. Volume 5 covers 1967 and 1968, when Crumb was crowned King of the Undergrounds. See a world-famous artist at work, developing ideas.

    "I'm anxious to see...

  • R. Crumb Sketchbook: Late 1967 & Early '68

    Personally selected by the artist, these drawings include much material never seen before. Volume 5 covers 1967 and 1968, when Crumb was crowned King of the Undergrounds. See a world-famous artist at work, developing ideas.

    "I'm anxious to see...

  • Waiting for Food: Restaurant Placemat Drawings

    WAITING FOR FOOD, Volume 1: Limited S&N edition of 250 by ROBERT CRUMB. This signed & numbered edition includes a special bookplate signed and numbered by Crumb. This is the first of several volumes reproducing the famous French restaurant place mats...

  • Crumb-Ology: The Works of R. Crumb 1981-1994

  • Big Yum Yum Book: The Story of Oggie & the Beanstalk



  • Carload O' Comics

  • The Complete Crumb Comics Volume 1: The Early Years of Bitter Struggle

  • The Complete Crumb Comics Volume 12: We're Livin' in the Lap of Luxury

    With volume 12, Fantagraphics' ambitious reprinting of premier underground comics artist Crumb's complete works reaches a landmark: Crumb's first collaborations with writer Harvey Pekar, which appeared in Pekar's magazine American Splendor....

  • The Complete Crumb Comics Volume 10: Crumb Advocates Violent Overthrow

  • Self Loathing #2

  • R. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book: Crumb's Whole Career, from Shack to Chateau!

    This first-ever hardcover retrospective of the legendary underground artist's work features his characters Keep on Truckin', Fritz the Cat, Devil Girl, and Mr. Natural, as well as unpublished rarities and personal reflections from the artist himself....

  • R. Crumb Sketchbook

  • R. Crumb Sketchbook, Volume 6

  • Self Loathing #1

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  • Your Vigor for Life Appalls Me: Collected Letters (1956-1972)



  • The Complete Crumb Comics Volume 13: Season of the Snoid

  • The R. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book

    When published in hardcover,, The R. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book was hailed as an original & audacious celebration of artistic genius & American popular culture. This paperback edition makes the best of this author available in a price that fans of c...

  • R. Crumb Sketchbook, Volume 7

  • R. Crumb Sketchbook; Mid 1969 to End of '76

    R Crumb is undoubtedly the foremost cartoonist of the latter 20th Century. His sketch-books, in which he has written and drawn continually from the early 60's to the present, might rank as his finest achievement. Presented in facsimile form, Volume 7...

  • The Complete Crumb Comics Volume 14: Uncle Bob's Mid-Life Crisis

  • R. Crumb Sketchbook from Early 1971 to Mid 1972

    A look inside the creative process with Robert Crumb. R. Crumb is undoubtedly the foremost cartoonist of the latter 20th Century, and his sketchbooks - in which he has written and drawn continually from the early '60s to present - might rank as his f...

  • Odds and Ends

    A never-before-compiled collection from the most influential underground artist of our time.
    Robert Crumb is a cartoonist with an instantly recognizable style who emerged in the 1960s with strips in the underground press. He founded Zap Comix ...

  • Complete Crumb Comics, Volume 15

    "Mode O'Day and Her Pals" includes all of Crumb's contributions to Weirdo #9-15, his first experiments with brush, the first Mode O'Day stories, the first collaboration with Bukowski, "Psychopathia Sexualis" and more!

    The definitive, comprehen...

  • Mr. Natural Postcard Book

    MR. NATURAL POSTCARD BOOK by ROBERT CRUMB. Twenty-four all-different full-color postcards featuring R. Crumb's most popular and enduring character. These very cool and wacky postcards touch on numerous emotional, political and religious themes ---one...

  • R. Crumb Sketchbook, Volume 9

    An incomparable, ongoing masterpiece. R. Crumb is undoubtedly the foremost cartoonist of the latter 20th Century, and his sketchbooks―in which he has written and drawn continually from the early '60s to present―might rank as his finest achieve...



  • The Complete Crumb Comics, Volume 16

    .html by R. Crumb; edited by Eric Reynolds
    The multiple award-winning The Complete Crumb Comics series - the definitive, compr...

  • Waiting for Food Book 3

    This is the third book in successful series of occasional sketches by the grandfather of American alternative comix. These sketches reveal another side-- a contemplative side-- to the controversial artist, renowned for his taboo-breaking satires o...

  • R. Crumb's Kafka

    Combines illustrated biographical details with a visual adaptation of some of the great Czech writer's works in a volume that includes graphic novel renditions of "The Judgment," "The Trial," The Castle," "A Hunger Artist," and "The Metamorphosis." O...

  • R. Crumb Sketchbook Vol. 10: June 1975-February 1977

    R. Crumb is undoubtedly the foremost cartoonist of the latter 20th Century, and his sketchbooks - in which he has written and drawn continually from the early 1960s to present - might rank as his finest achievem...

  • Complete Crumb Comics, Volume 17

    by Robert Crumb
    After many Eisner and Harvey comics awards, the Complete Crumb series comes to a close (at least in its current format - we will continue to collect the entirety of Crumb's career in single-...

  • Mystic Funnies #2

    by Robert Crumb
    Back in print after years of being sold out! From such old favorites as Flakey Foont and Mr. Natural to new characters such as Hipman and The Moron, this series shows Crumb playing to his str...

  • The Complete Crumb Comics Volume 11: Mr. Natural Commited to a Mental Institution

  • The Complete Crumb Comics Volume 4: Mr Sixties!

    A classic volume of the definitive Complete Crumb library, back in print after years of unavailability!

    The Complete Crumb Comics Vol. 4: Mr. Sixties! continues the multi-volume series comprising the complete works of the legendary cartoonist R...

  • Complete Crumb Comics Volume 9: R. Crumb vs. the Sisterhood

    So is he a misogynist or isn't he? This might be the place to find out, with "The Many Faces of R. Crumb" and the nasty title story. Plus Crumb's weird funny-animal stories, illustrations from the cookbook "Eat It," and more!

    Robert Crumb's lo...

  • The Book of Genesis

    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 bef...



  • The Complete Crumb Comics: We're Livin' in the Lap of Luxury

    The twelfth volume spotlights Crumb's first collaborations with writer Harvey Pekar, which appeared in Pekar's magazine American Splendor (also the name of Pekar's biopic). This collection also includes a skeptical report-in-comics on an aerospace sy...

  • The Sweeter Side of R. Crumb

    The "nasty, negative, misanthropic" comic genius proves he has a sweet side.

    Cute little kittens, angels, and babies? Flowers, ice cream cones, and German boy bands? Coming from, supposedly, the creepiest and most pessimistic artist of his gen...

  • Snatch Comics Treasury

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  • The Complete Record Cover Collection

    A landmark work that pays splendid homage to a forgotten era of seminal American music.

    Robert Crumb first began drawing record covers in 1968 when Janis Joplin, a fellow Haight Ashbury denizen, asked him to provide a cover for her album Cheap...

  • The Life and Death of Fritz the Cat

    Robert Crumb’s first great character ― in fact, his second-best-known character next to Mr. Natural ― was Fritz the Cat, the horny, hip-talking feline whose success caused Crumb to kill him off. The Life and Death of Fritz the Cat, back in prin...

  • The Complete Crumb Comics: "The Early Years of Bitter Struggle"

    This long out-of-print volume collects Crumb's earliest comic efforts.

    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 se...

  • Drawn Together: The Collected Works of R. and A. Crumb

    Rumored for years, Drawn Together finally charts the daily exploits and erotic craziness of this “First Couple” of comics.

    Who could have imagined that in 1972, when Aline Kominsky, a Long Island escapee and bodaciously talented artist, br...

  • Your Vigor for Life Appalls Me: The R. Crumb Letters 1958-1977

    A revealing collection of the great artist's private correspondence.

    “I feel that my work is but a feeble expression of something that in itself is vague and doubtful… Sometimes when I probe myself I find that my intentions in art aren't...

  • The Complete Crumb Comics Volume 5: Happy Hippy Comix

    Two perennial Crumb collections are now back in print.

    Continuing our ongoing commitment to keep this perennial, canonic series in print, we represent two of most often-demanded volumes in The Complete Crumb Comics. Vol. 5: “Happy Hippy Comi...

  • Kafka

    David Zane Mairowitz's brilliant text and the illustrations and comic panels of the world's greatest cartoonist, Robert Crumb (himself no stranger to self-loathing and alienation), help us to understand the esse...

  • The Complete Crumb Comics Vol. 17: "Cave Wimp"

    "Cave Wimp” (Vol. 17) completes the 1980s and leads into the 1990s, a creatively fertile period for Crumb, who had given up the editorial reins of his own Weirdo magazine to get back to the proverbial drawing board. Included are Crumb’s contribut...

  • The Complete Crumb Comics Vol. 6: "On The Crest Of A Wave"

    Robert Crumb enters the ’70s “On the Crest of a Wave” with the sixth volume in Fantagraphics Books’ reprint series. This includes a couple of genuine rarities, as well as all of Crumb’s work from Big Ass #1, Zap #4 (including the legendary,...

  • The Complete Crumb Comics Volume 8: The Death of Fritz the Cat

    Continuing our ongoing commitment to keep this perennial, canonic series in print, we re-present the most often-demanded volumes in The Complete Crumb Comics series. Vol. 8: Starring Fritz the Cat features one of Crumbs most notorious comics, The Dea...

  • The Complete Zap Comix Boxed Set

    There scarcely was an underground comics world before Robert Crumb’s classic solo first issue ofZap. By Zap #2, he had begun assembling a Seven Samurai of the best, the fiercest, and the most stylistically diversified cartoonists to come out of the...

  • Crumb Family Comics

  • R. Crumb's America

    Collecting his political drawings and another series of thematic anthologies from the Grand Master of modern comix. From the right-on 60s and 70s to the bitterness and disillusion of the 80s and ending with the futility of fighting the all powerful s...

  • Waiting for Food II: More Restaurant Placemat Drawings

    Everyone knows the temptation of doodling on a restaurant tablecloth -- but no one performs this deed as masterfully as R. Crumb. In this second collection of often irreverent and always mesmerizing placemat drawings, Crumb depicts fellow diners, Ame...

  • The Complete Crumb Comics Vol. 16: The Mid-1980s: More Years of Valiant Struggle

    Vol. 16 showcases a period that many critics consider to be amongst the richest of Crumb’s career. Anchored by Crumb’s contributions to his anthology Weirdo, this volume focuses on the years 1985-1987 and includes the seminal “Jelly Roll Morton...

  • The Complete Crumb Comics Vol. 10: Crumb Advocates Violent Overthrow

    Fantagraphics continues to keep underground cartoonist R. Crumb’s (The Complete Zap Comix) oeuvre in print and readily available.

    Vol. 10 showcases work from 1973 to 1975, including his work for the first four issues of Arcade magazine, his ...

  • Zap Comix #16

    This blowout issue not only includes work by all eight Zap artists (plus a collaboration with cartoonist Aline Kominsky), but also three double-page jams by the group. Plus: Zapâ,"s first-and-only color section, featuring comics by R. Crumb and ...

  • Art & Beauty Magazine: Drawings by R. Crumb: Numbers 1, 2 & 3

    One of America’s most celebrated cartoonists, Robert Crumb helped define cartoon and punk subcultures of the 1960s and 1970s with comic strips like Fritz the Cat, Mr. Natural, and Keep on Truckin’. The open sexuality of his work, paired with freq...

  • R. CRUMB: From the Underground to GENESIS

    Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris presents a premiere retrospective exhibit on one of the greatest illustrators of the past fifty years: Robert Crumb. A founding pioneer of Underground comics, he represents a mythical figure in American cou...

  • R. Crumb Handbook

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

R. Crumb has published 72 books.

R. Crumb does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, R. CRUMB: From the Underground to GENESIS, was published in January 2018.

The first book by R. Crumb, R. Crumb's Head, was published in October 1968.

No. R. Crumb does not write books in series.
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