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Issue: The Complete Crumb Comics #16
Publication Date: July 2002
 
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Title: The Mid-1980s: More Years of Valiant Struggle
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Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books, Inc.
On Sale Date: 2002
Volume: 16
Pages: 128
ISBN: 1560974605
UPC/EAN: 978156097460451895
Price: $28.45 CAD
$18.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 62 (22 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Trade Paperback
Color: Black & White with some Color
Dimensions: 8.5" x 11" (21.59 cm x 27.94 cm)
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Binding: Softcover
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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Jelly Roll Morton's Voodoo Curse and Other Stories

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Jelly Roll Morton
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This is the front cover flap. It includes an excerpt from the book introduction. The "Laissez Goodstuff Roulé, Tout le Temps, Pardner" drawing is included.
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The Complete Crumb

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Title page
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The Complete Crumb volume 16: The Mid-1980s- More Years of Valiant Struggle

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Title and publisher page; Indicia page with production and reprint credits
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Contents

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Mr. Natural
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Includes a small Crumb drawing.
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Crumb's On the Road

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Robert Crumb
Promotional poster for Crumb's 1985 European tour made in support of the "Love to Ten" compilation.
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Introduction

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Introduction signed and dated April, 2002.
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[untitled]

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Jelly Roll Morton's Voodoo Curse

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adult, biography
Jelly Roll Morton; Billy Young; Madame Elise; Anita Gonzalez; Laura Hunter [Eulalie Echo]
Jelly Roll's own words are used to illustrate this story about how a curse may have caused his decline and fall in show business and in life.
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FlagRaw #7 published May 1985
was Jelly Roll Morton's Voodoo Curse [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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[untitled]

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humorous
The Crumb Family
Aline Kominsky-Crumb; Robert Crumb
Let's begin by introducing ourselves... I'm R. Crumb and I'm drawing myself
Aline and Robert introduce themselves.
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An attempt at a daily strip that was ultimately rejected by an editor for the San Francisco Examiner. This strip and the following one were false starts due to incorrect panel proportions.
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humorous
The Crumb Family
Aline Kominsky-Crumb; Robert Crumb; Sophie Crumb
Before Bob gets here.. le'm me tell ya that we're both terribly sensitive artists!
Robert introduces Sophie.
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The Crumb Family
Aline Kominsky-Crumb; Robert Crumb
Okay, here's the shtick... I'm R. Crumb and I'm drawing myself in this comic strip...
Robert introduces himself again.
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The Crumb Family
Aline Kominsky-Crumb; Robert Crumb
Before Bob gets here lemme tell ya that we're both terribly sensitive artists...
Robert objects to Aline's frankness so early into the strip.
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The Crumb Family
Aline Kominsky-Crumb; Robert Crumb
Bob you can't use this strip to make fun of my family!
Aline defends her family and changes her outfit.
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The Crumb Family
Aline Kominsky-Crumb; Robert Crumb
Bob, it's my birthday.... what can I get?
Aline asks which restaurant can they go to for her birthdday.
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The Crumb Family
Aline Kominsky-Crumb; Robert Crumb
Bob, ya know it's you the public wants and here I am asserting myself, as usual!
Aline steps back to allow Robert to take over.
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humorous
The Crumb Family
Aline Kominsky-Crumb; Robert Crumb
Aline, I can't do this on my own up here!
Aline encourages Robert and suggests that he tells some stories.
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humorous
The Crumb Family
Aline Kominsky-Crumb; Robert Crumb
More of Bob's hilarious true-life tales...
Aline gives a few anecdotes about Robert.
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humorous
The Crumb Family
Aline Kominsky-Crumb; Robert Crumb
Alright, "Tell em about the time your ex-wife put sleeping pills in the chicken soup"
Crumb talks about his first wife from twenty years ago.
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The Crumb Family
Aline Kominsky-Crumb; Robert Crumb
Aline, I can't do this without you...I'm the straight man...
Aline talks about how easy telling jokes is for her.
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The Crumb Family
Aline Kominsky-Crumb; Robert Crumb
Oh Ghod, remember the last time your mother was here?
Aline recalls being worried that she was like her mother.
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humorous
The Crumb Family
Aline Kominsky-Crumb; Robert Crumb
Then there was that time you insisted we take your mother to the Zen Bakery
Robert recalls the embarrassment he felt when they took Aline's mom out to a bakery.
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The Crumb Family
Aline Kominsky-Crumb; Robert Crumb
Oh no Bob look at the calendar!
Aline reminds Robert that it's time for her P.M.S.
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autobiography, humorous
Dirty Laundry Comics
Aline Kominsky-Crumb; Robert Crumb; Sophie Crumb
Aline, in that last comic we did (see Weirdo #9) we finally get to have sex
Aline admires her newly slim body and criticizes Robert's flabby stomach. Robert ponders how explicit this comic should be. The couple goes out in the yard to cut the weeds.
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FlagWeirdo #16 [unnamed variant] published January 1986
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The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick

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Philip K. Dick; Tess; Christopher; Thomas M. Disch [Tom Disch]; John the Baptist
Philip K. Dick's own words are used to illustrate this story. He struggles to make sense of a vision that made him see the world from the point of view of Apostolic Christians from ancient Rome. Eventually, a transformation occurs. What was once merely a vision then begins to take over his mind.
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FlagWeirdo #17 [unnamed variant] published January 1986
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Are you one of the undesirables? ...Then you must read... Weirdo
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A rejected cover for Weirdo #18.
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[untitled]

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Mode O'Day
Mode O'Day; Mara; Doggy; Porpy; Alison; Scott; Jerry Wombat; Darlene
They say opportunity knocks but once and you'd better grab it while you can!!
Mode snags a bit part in a movie. She then hosts an "intimate gathering" to celebrate this.
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FlagWeirdo #18 [unnamed variant] published January 1986
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Mother Hulda

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fantasy
Widow; Pretty Stepdaughter; Ugly Daughter; Mother Hulda
An adaptation of the German fairy tale. A pretty girl who is spurned by her stepmother winds up in a new land after falling down a well.
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FlagWeirdo #19 [unnamed variant] published January 1986
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Illustrations from The Tunnel Of Love

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FlagWeirdo #19 [unnamed variant] published January 1986
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Three illustrations from the original text story. Captions by Stephen Calt are included.
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Footsy

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autobiography
Robert Crumb; Jeanette Bates; The 'Teach'; Dolly Hensley; Wayne; Cebrick; Ginny Bates; Nancy Gorman; Ernie; Sally Burton; Terri; Mary; John; Terri's Friend
Crumb details his lifelong obsession with playing footsy.
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FlagWeirdo #20 [unnamed variant] published January 1987
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Troubles with Cute Old Refrigerators

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autobiography
Aline 'n' Bob
Robert Crumb; Aline Kominsky-Crumb
The couple detail their trouble with malfunctioning vintage refrigerators.
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FlagPrime Cuts #1 published March 1987
was Troubles with Cute Old Refrigerators [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Pa-ayper-Reggs!!

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autobiography
American Splendor
Jewish guy; Harvey Pekar; Rag Peddlers; Big Fat Loudmouth Silver; Krasny the Butcher; Turk
An older man tells Harvey about Cleveland's 1920s Jewish rag peddlers.
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FlagAmerican Splendor #12 published January 1987
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Pioneers of Country Music advertisements

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Frank Blevins and his Tar Heel Rattlers; Gid Tanner and his Skillet Lickers; Charlie Poole with the North Carolina Ramblers; Al Hopkins and his Buckle Busters; Burnett & Rutherford; Jimmie Rodgers; Carter Family; Uncle Dave Macon and his Fruit-Jar Drinkers
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Two advertisements for Yazoo Record's "Pioneers of Country Music" card set. From 1985
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Pioneers of Country Music

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Pioneers of Country Music
The Girls of the Golden West (previously unpublished); Happy Hayseeds; Fiddlin' John Carson & his Virginia Reelers; Andy Palmer of Jimmie Johnson's String Band; Eck Robertson and Family; South Georgia Highballers; Carter Family; Ted Gossett of Ted Gossett's String Band; Jimmie Rodgers; Harry "Mac" McClintock; Uncle Dave Macon and his Fruit-Jar Drinkers; Shelor Family; W.T. Narmour & S.W. Smith; Jimmie & George Carter of Carter Brothers & Son; Hoyt Ming and his Pep Steppers; Charlie Poole with the North Carolina Ramblers; Fiddlin' Bob Larkin and his Music Makers; "Dock" Boggs; Wilmer Watts of Wilmer Watts and The Lonely Eagles; The Tennessee Ramblers; Ernest Stoneman and the Blue Ridge Corn Shuckers; Shepherd Brothers; Taylor-Griggs Louisiana Melody Makers; Paul Miles and his Red Fox Chasers; Roane County Ramblers; Frank Blevins and his Tar Heel Rattlers; Al Hopkins and his Buckle Busters; Red Patterson's Piedmont Log Rollers; East Texas Serenaders; Fiddlin' Powers & Family; Weems String Band; Leake County Revelers; Crockett Kentucky Mountaineers; Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters; Gid Tanner and his Skillet Lickers; Earl Johnson and his Dixie Entertainers; Fiddlin' Doc Roberts Trio; Dr. Humphrey Bate and his Possum Hunters; Burnett & Rutherford; Mumford Bean and his Itawambians; Ray Brothers
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Forty illustrations from the 1985 Yazoo Records card set, plus one previously unpublished one. The cover for the set is also shown.
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[untitled]

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Weirdo
Ha ha ha ha ha
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Weirdo
Wait! Stop! Don't look! This is not a nice magazine!
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FlagWeirdo #17 [unnamed variant] published January 1986
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Weirdo
Mode O'Day
Ew, what a low-life name for a magazine!! Can't we change the name??
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FlagWeirdo #18 [unnamed variant] published January 1986
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Weirdo
I thought I told you to wait in the car!
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FlagWeirdo #19 [unnamed variant] published January 1986
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Weirdo
In This Issue: Religion Crime Food Sex
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Weirdo
Not so fast sonny boy!
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FlagWeirdo #21 [1st printing] published January 1987
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R. Crumb's Early Weirdo Period: 1981-'85 Unpublished Cover

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adult, humorous
Robert Crumb
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From 1986.
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R. Crumb's Missing Children!

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humorous
National Lampoon
DeWitt Turner; Kirsten Shmutzwicz; Josh Hutchison; Anna Maria Gonzalez
A mock public service ad asking information about four missing children.
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FlagNational Lampoon Magazine #3/1986 published March 1986
was Missing Children [Cartoon on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Originally done for Weirdo, but it was rejected by Ron Turner of Last Gasp.
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Four Comics Journal Covers

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Comics Journal
Robert Crumb; Harvey Pekar; Gil Kane; Gary Groth
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Wild Dog

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humorous
Dianne Feinstein; Warren Hinckle; Marilyn Chambers
A 1985 poster mocking San Francisco mayor Dianne Feinstein and the city's police.
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Logo and police drawn by Crumb; Dianne Feinstein drawn by Moscoso. The poster was commissioned by the Mitchell Brothers. Several of these were pasted in the bathrooms of San Francisco's city hall.
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Anti-Herbicide Petition

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From September 1986. "Ballot enclosed - Forest Service to Spray 5 1/2 Million Acres with Herbicide"
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American Splendor
Harvey Pekar; Irv
I tell ya, Irv, if anybody'd a' tole me a coupla years ago when I wuz just a flunky file clerk...
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FlagAmerican Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar #[nn] published January 1986
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American Splendor
Harvey Pekar; Mr. Boats
How's yer book sellin,' Harv?
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FlagMore American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar #[nn] published January 1987
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Book & Album Covers

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Robert Crumb; Dominique Cravic; Daniel Huck; Didier Roussin; Jean-Jacques Milteau; Olivier Blavet; Florence Dionneau; Guy Lefebvre; Charlie Patton
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from Famous People I Have Known (Farrar Straus Giroux, 1985 series) #[nn]; from King of the Delta Blues: The Life and Music of Charlie Patton (Rock Chapel Press, 1988 series) #[nn]
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Two book covers, one calendar cover and one LP cover. "Famous People I Have Known" (from the Ed McClanahan book). The 1987 Monkey Wrench Gang Calendar; A 1987 "Cocktail d'Amour" LP cover (front cover to the Les Primitifs du Futur LP); "King of the Delta Blues: The Life and Music of Charlie Patton" (from the book by Stephen Calt and Gayle Wardlow)
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Twelve Illustrations

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Vulture Demonesses; Margaret Thatcher; Dirtbag Bunny; Carol Engberg; Julie McNamara; Craig McNamara; Robert Crumb; Sophie Crumb; Aline Kominsky-Crumb
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from Libération (?, 1973 series) (January 28, 1986)
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Includes the following: "Don't worry, everything's going to be fine...." - (A 1985 illustration used for postcards and prints in the French market. The image shows two Vulture Demonesses looking down at a skinny man); A caricature of Margaret Thatcher as a hen standing over several eggs (done for Libération); Two pastel drawings done with Sophie Crumb- "Dirtbag Bunny" and a pastel drawing of the sun looking down over some buildings (from 1986); An 1987 oil portrait of Carol Engberg; Three holiday card illustrations for the McNamara family- "Seasons greetings... and a Happy New Year!;" "We Wish You a Merry Christmas;" "Seasons Greetings!;" Five Crumb family holiday card illustrations- A Valentines Day card that is addressed "To Mommy" which opens up to show Robert & Sophie; Two cards done by the whole family- "Have Yourself an Expressionistic Little Christmas" (1987) and "It's Been a Hell of a Year!" (1986)
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Meet the Beats Portfolio

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Jack Kerouac; William S. Burroughs; Allen Ginsberg
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from Meet the Beats (Water Row Press, 1985 series) #[nn]
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Ginsberg's name is misspelled in the table of contents of this volume of The Complete Crumb comics (first printing).
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Monkeywrench Gang 1987 calendar illustrations

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Smith; Hayduke
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These illustrations were not used in the 1985 novel. Includes brief captions from the novel's text.
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Fried Brains

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From 1987, a commissioned illustration for an unproduced movie script.
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R. Crumb Au Salon International de la Bande Dessinée d' Angoulême

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Robert Crumb; M. Pascal
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from Libération (?, 1973 series) (January 28, 1986)
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An illustrated report of the Angoulême festival
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Quest for Firewood

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High Times
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Two illustrations for a Jay Feldman article.
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Miscellaneous Spot Illustrations

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Warren Hinckle
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Two illustrations. "Hinckle Free At Last" (image shows three beefy cops dragging away Warren Hinckle and his dog. This was for a poster to promote Hinckle's column in the San Francisco Examiner, from 1985); "....If you could manage it, landing knees-first on someone's kidneys was the most brutal" (made for an unknown story from 1986)
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People Magazine (June 24, 1985)

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People magazine
Robert Crumb; Charles Crumb Sr.; Charles Crumb Jr. [Chuck]; Aline Kominsky; Sophie Crumb
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Three illustrations- "1954: Little Bobby Crumb & his brother Chuck, a couple of comic-book wimps;" "R. Crumb in 1985... a regular family kinda guy....;" "1967: R. Crumb leaves Cleveland, joins the hippy migration to San Francisco..."
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Miscellaneous Spot Illustrations

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Mary Boettcher; Françoise; Leah; The Riley Sisters; Carol; Marilyn Chambers; Dianne Feinstein; Bigfoot; Bride of Bigfoot; Vulture Demoness; Terry Zwigoff; Eggs Ackley; Mr. Natural; Abigail Rose Olson Arons; Sean P. McNamara; Julie McNamara; Craig McNamara; Robert Crumb
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from Whole Earth Review (?, 1985 series) #44 (January 1985); from Cassette Gazette (February 1986); from San Francisco Chronicle (?, 1865 series) (February, 4, 1985); from San Francisco Chronicle (?, 1865 series) (February 21, 1985); from San Francisco Comix #8 (June, 1986) (fanzine)
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Thirty-one illustrations: Eight private sketches of friends & acquaintances- Mary Boettcher (1984); Françoise (1987); Leah (1987); The Riley Sisters (1985); An unnamed one (likely Mary Boettcher); Carol (1987); Two more of Mary- one from June 1985, the other one titled "Mary at Putah Creek" (1985); Two from the San Francisco Chronicle- "I don't take tips so how could I be soliciting??" (featuring Marilyn Chambers); "Naughty boys... I just can't seem to make them behave." (A collaboration with Moscoso featuring mayor Feinstein as Little Bo Peep); "Bride of Bigfoot" (A 1987 ad for a porno movie); "Me 'N' My Muse" (March 1986, features a Vulture Demoness- is an invitation for the La Hune gallery exhibition in Paris); A Black Sparrow Press moving card shows a bespectacled cartoon sparrow tugging by rope a huge pile of books; Two from the Whole Earth Review- one shows a bespectacled man sitting in front of a computer in a small room; "Education" (shows sixteen children working on their computers while sitting in rows of four); Two letterhead logos from 1985- "Kitchen Sink Press" and "Superior Pictures;" "Stenciling, Wallpapering, Painting- Julie Partansky" (A business card design from 1985); a business card illustration for Terry Zwigoff from 1985; A February 1986 Cassette Gazette fanzine cover; "I found you amusing for awhile punk, but now I'm tired of your pathetic little ego!" (a San Francisco Comix fanzine cover); "Mr. Natural Sez: Chiropractic... ...Naturally!" (a 1987 promo illustration for Dr. Julian G. Schiller, Chiropractor); Two birth announcements for Abigail Rose Olson Arons; "Pumping Gas by Diane Callum" (made for a poem from a Davis, CA poetry magazine, 1985); two "Goodstuff" restaurant menu illustrations; "Gala Valentines Event" (1985 party invitation for the engagement of Monica Cranston and John Wallace); Two birth announcements- "It's a boy!" (1987 for the Zolten family) and "It's another bumper crop!" (October 1987 birth for the McNamara family); "Yes, I'm bitter... maybe I need therapy... is this worth 25 bucks, you jerk??" (a full-page Crumb self-portrait made as private commission for Mark J. Cohen (March 1987)
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Back cover flap lists all the other Fantagraphic Crumb books available at the time.
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Back cover includes a 1987 painting of Crumb by Alice Kominsky-Crumb. Also included is a small excerpt from Robert Crumb's intro.
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