Starring Fritz the Cat includes Crumb's classic original Fritz stories from 1965, including "Fritz Bugs Out" and "Fritz the Cat, Special Agent for the CIA," the first two "real" stories in the Fritz canon, as well as "Fritz the Cat, Ace Statesman," four pages of a previously unpublished Fritz story, and several Fritz illos never before printed in color. Plus: Crumb's first published work from Help! and Yell, including the "Harlem Sketchbook" and the "Bulgarian Sketchbook," most never before reprinted; two dozen of his Topps trading cards, plus extremely rare promotional items, as well as many creeting cards done for American Greetings, several in full color; and many pages of strips from Crumb's 20-year-old sketchbooks. Plus more of Marty Pahls's ongoing Crumb biography, including the story of Crumb's first acid trip, with more rare photos of the young Crumb!

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Continuing our ongoing commitment to keep the canonic Complete Crumb Comics series available, we reprint two of most oftendemanded volumes. Vol. 5: 'Happy Hippy Comix' spotlights the period from late-1967 through 1969, including the second issue of ZAP Comix, the introduction of Angelfood McSpade, Mr. Natural, a long Fritz story, an alternate version of the Cheap Thrills album cover, and more!

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Robert Crumb enters the '70s with the sixth volume in Fantagraphics Books' reprint series.

Included are a couple of genuine rarities, as well as all of Crumb's work from Big Ass#1, Zap#4 (including the legendary, much-busted 'Joe Blow'), Jiz #1, Despair and the remarkably offensive Snatch #3 - classics all.

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Features one of Crumb's most notorious comics, "The Death of Fritz the Cat," as well as "Whiteman Meets Bigfoot," the complete Big Ass #2 and Mr. Natural #2, wild jams and loads of photos! This volume covers the years 1971-1972.

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Back in print in a new 2009 softcover edition after a several-year absence, the 12th volume of The Complete Crumb spotlights Crumb’s first collaborations with national treasure Harvey Pekar, which appeared in the legendary American Splendor. This collection also includes a skeptical report-in-comics on an aerospace symposium (commissioned by CoEvolution Quarterly, it comes off like one of Michael Moore’s cocky documentary films), Crumb’s encounter with an interviewer from High Times magazine, an evocative period piece featuring 1930s jazz musicians, another of Crumb’s collaborative “jams” with Aline Kominsky, and everything else that’s established R. Crumb as the master catoonist of his time! Makes a great gift and doubles as an evocative educational tool, teaching our youth what it means to be American (from the guy that moved to France)!

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The Season of the Snoid: Found in this collection, spanning 1976-1980, are Crumb's classic "social and environmental" rants unleashed in Co-Evolution Quarterly and Winds of Change; the now-famous "A Short History of America"; more collaborations with Harvey Pekar in the gritty American Splendor; the quintissential "My Troubles with Women"; and most important of all, the very first "Snoid" comics! Additional must-have artwork includes a huge dose of rare full-color album cover art from Blue Goose, Red Goose and Yazoo. Even the most devoted Crumb fan will find surprises galore, including a very revealing and long introduction by Maxon Crumb.

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The definitive, comprehensive series reprinting the entirety of Crumb's published career enters the mid-1980s with this 15th volume, a period that many critics consider to be the richest of Crumb's career. Anchored by Crumb's contributions to the seminal anthology Weirdo, created and edited by Crumb, this volume includes the first several appearances of classic Crumb character Mode O' Day, the networking fashion plate that serves as a foil for some of Crumb's most biting satire about America's cultural "elite." Other Weirdo highlights include Crumb's fascinating adaptation of Dr. R. Von Krafft-Ebing's "Psychopathia Sexualis," and "Where Has it Gone, all the Beautiful Music of Our Grandparents?", two stories often-cited as being amongst Crumb's very best work. The Weirdo section wraps up with yet another classic, "The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick," which chronicles the last years of the highly-regarded science-fiction writer who experienced an intense vision of the apocalypse and believed that he was possessed by the spirit of Elijah. Also included are Crumb's first collaborations with the late writer Charles Bukowski, including the chapbook "Bring Me Your Love," as well as several collaborations with Harvey Pekar from his autobiographical series American Splendor. The book is rounded out with a color section that includes rare album art for various jazz and blues greats, as well reproductions of his various comic book covers from this period. Crumb is the most revealing of all artists, and The Complete Crumb Comics leaves no stone unturned.

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The multiple award-winning The Complete Crumb Comics series — the definitive, comprehensive series reprinting the entirety of Crumb's published career — enters the mid-1980s with this 16th volume, a period that many critics consider to be the richest of Crumb's career.

Also featured are Crumb's gorgeous "Pioneers of Country Music" color portrait series, and such Weirdo classics as "The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick," which chronicles the last years of the highly-regarded science-fiction writer who experienced an intense vision of the apocalypse and believed that he was possessed by the spirit of Elijah.

The book is rounded out with a new cover and introduction by Crumb and a color section that includes rare album art for various jazz and blues greats, covers for Weirdo, The Comics Journal and Harvey Pekar's American Splendor, and more. Crumb is the most revealing of all artists, and The Complete Crumb Comics leaves no stone unturned.

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'Cave Wimp' covers the late 1980s and leads into the 1990s, a creatively fertile period for Crumb. Included are Crumb's contributions to Weirdo from this period, as well as work from Whole Earth Review, Zap Comix, Premiere magazine, and many other rare gems. Featured are classics including the title story - the story of the first nerd ' and 'A Short History of America,' amongst others. Includes a new introduction by Crumb, full-color cover portfolio section and a new cover.

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The bestselling, award-winning series that sparked a renaissance for fans of classic comic strips upon its debut in 2004 is now in softcover!

This first volume features hundreds of strips rarely reprinted before this series. The Complete Peanuts offers a unique chance to see a master of the art form refine his skills and solidify his universe, day by day. This volume is rounded out with a biographical essay by David Michaelis and an in-depth interview with Schulz conducted in 1987.

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Our second paperback volume of the acclaimed Complete Peanuts series finds Schulz establishing his comic universe.

Pigpen and his dust cloud join Charlie Brown, Shermy, Patty, Violet, Schroeder, Lucy, baby Linus, and Snoopy. Charlie Brown hasn't yet abandoned his brasher, prankish behavior from our first volume and Lucy has forcefully elbowed her way to the center of the action. Snoopy's appearances here may come as the biggest surprise: he behaves, for the most part, like a dog!

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This third volume takes us into the mid-1950s as the characters we are all familiar with solidify.

Linus learns to talk, Snoopy begins to explore his eccentricities, Lucy's crush on Schroeder takes shape, and Charlie Brown becomes even more Charlie Brown-ish! This volume includes an introduction by Matt Groening (The Simpsons) as well as the popular Complete Peanuts index, a hit with librarians and collectors alike.

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In this fourth paperback volume, the 1950s close and Peanuts enters its golden age

Linus becomes downright eloquent and begins to fend off Lucy's bullying, although his neurosis becomes more pronounced, including a harrowing two-weeks of blanketlessness. Charlie Brown cascades further down the hill to loserdom, with lost kites and humiliating baseball losses. But the rising star is undoubtedly Snoopy.

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Fantagraphics award winning Peanuts series now reprinted in budget-friendly softcover!

As the first decade of Peanuts closes, Snoopy begins to take up residence atop his doghouse, and his repertoire of impressions increases exponentially. Lucy offers her first five-cent psychiatric counsel. For the very first time, Linus spends all night in the pumpkin patch on his lonely vigil for the Great Pumpkin. Even more importantly, Charlie Brown's sister Sally makes her appearance. All this, and one of the most famous Peanuts strips ever: “Happiness is a warm puppy.”

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Though the long-running hardcover Complete Peanuts series concludes this season, the paperbacks launch into the 1960s!

The obnoxious Frieda and her cat Faron are added to the cast while Linus is forced to wear glasses and coaxes Sally into the cult of the Great Pumpkin. Snoopy befriends a snowman and endures a crisis involving a family of birds. Plus baseball blowouts, Beethoven birthdays, and plenty of psychiatric help for a nickel.

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Though the long-running hardcover Complete Peanuts series concluded in 2016 with Vol. 26, the paperback editions continue!

This volume is rich in never-before-reprinted strips. More than one fifth of the book had never seen the light of day since their original appearance until reappearing in The Complete Peanuts. These "lost" strips include Linus making a near-successful run for class president and Snoopy getting involved with a group of politically fanatical birds.

Also in this volume: Lucy creates an educational slideshow of Charlie Brown's faults and Snoopy's doghouse begins its conceptual expansion. Introduction by Bill Melendez.

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We are now in the mid-1960s, one of Schulz's peak periods of creativity. This volume marks two milestones for Snoopy: the first dogfight with the Red Baron, and the launch of his writing career. Two new characters make their bows. Roy, who won't make a lasting and a strange kid he has met. Her name? Peppermint Patty.

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The World War I Flying Ace is riding high throughout this volume, but Snoopy still has time to moonlight as an armwrestling champion, a figure skater, a vulture, and the “Cheshire Beagle.” Not to mention running for political office on the “Paw” ticket! Also, did you know Charlie Brown wasn't his original owner? The truth is revealed here for the very first time...

Plus: Franklin and Jose Peterson make their debut, side by side with old favorites like Sally, Linus, Lucy, Schroeder, and Peppermint Patty.

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He turns up first as Snoopy's secretary, then becomes a good friend whom Snoopy helps to fly south, eventually gaing a name that is the perfect salute to the decade that ends with this volume: Woodstock! In other stories, Peppermint Patty runs afoul of her school's dress code, Lucy declares herself a "New Feminist," and Snoopy returns to the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm on a speaking engagement!

Vol. 10 also features an introduction by renowned children's book author Mo Willems.

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Sally elbows her way to center stage, but there's still room for summer camp, The Six Bunny-Wunnies, Marcie, Woodstock, and the debuts of Snoopy's alter ego Joe Cool and a new little brother for Linus and Lucy, Rerun Van Pelt!

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Tennis, anyone? Billie Jean King serves up an introduction... and we celebrate Woodstock!

Plus the conclusion of the "Poochie" storyline, Rerun's first appearance, and Charlie Brown as the mysterious and popular "Mr. Sack"!

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These years are especially fecund in terms of new canine characters, as Snoopy is joined by his wandering brother Spike (from Needles), his beloved sister Belle (from Kansas City), and... did you know he had a nephew?

In other beagle news, Snoopy breaks his foot and spends six weeks in a cast, deals with his friend Woodstock's case of the "the vapors," and gets involved in a heated love triangle with Linus over the girl "Truffles."

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As the 1970s wind down, the last two recurring Peanuts characters have fallen into place: Snoopy's brother Spike and the youngest Van Pelt sibling, Rerun. But that doesn't mean Schulz's creativity has diminished; in fact, this volume features an amazing profusion of hilariously distinctive new one- (or two-) shot characters!

For instance, in an epic five-week sequence, when Charlie Brown, found guilty by the EPA of biting the Kite-Eating tree, he goes on the lam and ends up coaching the "Goose Eggs," a group of diminutive baseball players, Austin, Ruby, Leland, and -did you know there was a second Black Peanuts character, aside from Franklin?-Milo. Also: a tennis-playing Snoopy ends up reluctantly teamed with the extreme Type "A" athlete Molly Volley... who then reappears later in the book, now facing off against her nemesis, "Crybaby" Boobie. (Honest!) Add in Sally's new camp friend Eudora, the thuggish "caddymaster" who shoots down Peppermint Patty and Marcie's new vocation, an entire hockey team, and a surprise repeat appearance by Linus's sweetheart "Truffles" (creating a love triangle with Sally), all in addition to the usual cast of beloved characters (including the talking schoolhouse and the doghouse-jigsawing cat, who gets ahold of Linus's blanket in this one), and you've got a veritable crowd ofcharacters.

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