The Road to Success

The Road to Success is a single-issue comic published by Topps in 1965, a satirical one-shot from the underground comix era most associated with the iconoclastic artist Robert Crumb. Its brief, standalone premise skewers the American dream through Crumb’s signature raw, countercultural style, marking an early example of his work reaching a wider, non-underground audience. Though short, it stands as a curious artifact of Crumb’s transition from fanzines to more commercial publishers, capturing his biting social commentary in its infancy.