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The R. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book #[nn]
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis oversized, lavishly illustrated hardcover serves as a comprehensive retrospective of Robert Crumb's career up to the late 1990s, collecting a vast array of his iconic comic strips, sketches, and illustrations. Spanning his underground comix work from the 1960s onward, the volume features appearances by many of his signature characters, including Mr. Natural, Fritz the Cat, Flakey Foont, Angelfood McSpade, the Snoid, and Devil Girl, alongside contributions from fellow underground artists like Aline Kominsky-Crumb, S. Clay Wilson, and Spain Rodriguez. Published by Little, Brown in 1997, it stands as a definitive, career-spanning artifact of one of the most influential figures in alternative comics.
In "A Bitchin' Bod!", Mr. Natural takes a bizarre, unsettling turn when he forces Cheryl’s head into her neck and hands her over to Flakey. What follows is a surreal, awkward encounter that leaves both parties shaken—especially when Flakey returns her, head still trapped, to Mr. Natural, who finally pulls her back out. Cheryl’s fury is immediate and fierce when she learns what happened, but the full weight of the moment hangs in the air, unresolved and charged.
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↩ Reprints Mad #27 (1956), Humbug #2 (1957), Help! #22 (1965), Zap Comix #1 (1967), Zap Comix #0 (1968), R. Crumb's Head Comix #[nn] (1968), Despair #[nn] (1969), Zap Comix #1 (1969), Big Ass Comics #[nn] (1969), R. Crumb's Fritz the Cat #[nn] (1969), Zap Comix #5 (1970), Promethean Enterprises #3 (1971), Your Hytone Comics #[nn] (1971), XYZ Comics #[nn] (1972), El Perfecto Comics #[nn] (1973), Zap Comix #6 (1973), Dirty Laundry Comics #[1] (1974), Promethean Enterprises #5 (1974), Zap Comix #8 (1975), Arcade the Comics Revue #3 (1975), Arcade the Comics Revue #4 (1975), Arcade the Comics Revue #5 (1976), Lemme Outa Here #[nn] (1978), Weirdo #1 (1981), Weirdo #4 (1982), Zap Comix #10 (1982), Weirdo #14 (1985), R. Crumb's Head Comix: Twenty Years Later #[nn] (1988), Aargh! #[nn] (1988), The Complete Crumb Comics #4 (1989), Harvey Kurtzman's Strange Adventures #[nn] (1990), The Complete Crumb Comics #5 (1990), Hup #4 (1992), Zap Comix #13 (1994)
Reprinted in The R. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book #[nn] (1998), La Crème de Crumb #[nn] (2012), Las 7 Vidas del Gato Fritz #[nn] (2016), Fritz the Cat #[nn] (2017), R. Crumb: Existential Comics, Selected Stories 1979-2014 #[nn] (2025)
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