The first three volumes of this series were met with fervent
acclaim from our readers, most of whom have been lying in wait for
an affordable trade edition since the $ 1,000 boxed sets appeared.
They laud these 440-page editions for their quality hardcover,
elegant matte paper, and impeccable reproduction as the best of the
best-the perfect tribute to the world's favorite dirty old man.
Expect this book to be no different. Combining volumes 7 and 8 from
the first boxed set (confusing, we know), it spans the years 1982
to 1989, a period when the artist was comfortably ensconced in
rural California, raising his young daughter Sophie, who appears
throughout this volume. But Crumb was still Crumb, declaring in one
drawing, above a lovingly rendered tree, "As I get older I get more
twisted, convoluted, depraved, cynical, embittered, self-centered,
jaded, debauched, ruthless, greedy, conceited, set-in-my-ways,
long-winded, absent-minded, prejudiced, closed-minded,
misanthropic, nervous..." To prove this self-flagellating analysis
he fills the pages with his signature perversions (in country
settings), scathing social commentary, cruel self-portraits,
experimental cubism... and some lovely sylvan landscape. His
mastery of the Rapidograph pen is at its zenith here in his 40s; we
only wish he'd chosen to include his prescient comic of Donald
Trump from 1989.
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