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R. Crumb sketchbook

by Robert Crumb · 2016

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This book contains hundreds of sketches from the master of underground comic art, including cover roughs for Zap, Motor City and Despair comics, the introduction of Aline, the first female Yetis, Flakey Foont and Mr. Natural, Honeybunch Kaminski, San Francisco drug culture and big buoyant butts, all wrapped up in a quality hard cover featuring front and back illustrations newly hand-colored by Crumb himself.

Genre
humorhumorMore like thisLess of this
Setting
2010s2010sMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
long · 443 pages
Form
graphic novelsgraphic novelsMore like thisLess of this

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