Whole Earth Review #61
"A Short History of America..." by Robert Crumb is a landmark piece in underground comics, tracing the transformation of a peaceful American grassland into a bustling, consumer-driven cityscape. Crumb’s distinctive art and incisive storytelling are on full display, culminating in an epilogue that presents three starkly different futures for the land—each a quiet, potent meditation on progress and consequence.
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One of Crumb's most famous stories shows the progress of an American landscape from idyllic grassland to modern commercial street. This has an "epilogue" page tacked on that offers three different future scenarios for that landscape.
Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).