The R Crumb Handbook Limited Edition Author:R. Crumb, Robert Crumb, Peter Poplaski The R. Crumb Handbook Limited Edition contains the first etching of R. Crumb's that has ever been available, a CD of Crumb's original songs, and a linen bound un-jacketed hardcover version of The R. Crumb Handbook. The etching, which is a first from R. Crumb, is signed and numbered. The book contains a bookplate that has a stamped signature... more » and self portrait. The R. Crumb Handbook is divided into the four enemies of man: FEAR, CLARITY, POWER, OLD AGE. He is the only underground cartoonist to be accepted by the fine art world. Working with his old drinking buddy and co-author Pete Poplaski, the four chapters are easily digested. With over 400 pages of cartoons and photographs, Crumb's often controversially-regarded views toward Disneyland, growing up in America, hippie love, art galleries, and turning 60 are revealed. By tracing his development as a cartoonist from his tormented childhood in the 1940s through to his coming of age as an artist in the psychedelic revolution of the 1960s, Robert Crumb visually treats us to the pressures and influences that the modern mass media has on human consciousness, and includes over 80 personal photographs, and 300 images taken from personal sketchbooks and comic books, as well as fine art from museums. For the serious student of late capitalist culture and the thousands of Crumb enthusiasts everywhere this book is indispensable.« less