The Complete Crumb Comics #11

Robert Crumb's complete creative control is on full display in this eleventh Fantagraphics collection, where every line — writing, art, inking, and lettering — flows from his singular hand. The cover, drawn and inked by Crumb himself, sets the tone perfectly: Mr. Natural, that wild-bearded guru, is being carted off by a well-dressed man and a bespectacled woman, with reassuring words about helpful people and getting better exchanged in classic Crumb speech bubbles. It's a wonderfully absurd scene that captures the offbeat humor and social unease that made Crumb's underground work so compelling in the first place.