I'm linking to Fantagraphics, where I bought it. I've read it and will reread it. Crumb tells the story of his own paranoia and maintains — at age 80+ — excellent dedication to detailed drawings, even with the difficult task of drawing his own face many many times with all sorts of different emotions, mostly in the range of fear and anxiety.
A glimpse, which will perhaps inspire you to paranoia about why you can't get this book from Amazon:
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There's lots of books you can't get from Amazon. For reasons that are invariably political.
Crockett Johnson's "Barnaby" in the two (I believe) WWII books is the best comic ever. Better than Peanuts and Doonesbury.
There's a later than WWII book not so good.
All of which are a much different genre than the one offered here, which looks completely unattractive. Is it sketch exercise rather than a comic enterprise? I don't see the appeal.
Crumb is a genius, and I don’t say that lightly.
When I was a young teen, I found my college-age sisters stash of the complete Zap comics. It corrupted my mind beyond redemption.
The older I get, the more I realize that the lefty scolds have made so much humor (and thought in general) unavailable to the younger generations.
I feel bad for them. Those of us who grew up in the 1960's really had it made compared to today's young people.
Weird, I was just thinking about him. Wondering if he was still alive. Anyway, I ordered it.
I don't see the appeal.
I will quietly say that I don't either. It was a gonzo, funky, underground 60s/70s aesthetic that I don't share.
Purchased it. Shipping was almost as expensive but well worth it. Thank you.
Maynard said...
The older I get, the more I realize that the lefty scolds have made so much humor (and thought in general) unavailable to the younger generations.
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Thank goodness we have no Leftist scolds in the commenting community here.
Parse.
I thought this guy got the "Me Too" scarlet letter, or did I dream that?
Never read an entire R. Crumb comic. Never will. No appeal.
I *think* there's a non paranoid explanation (if you want one). It's being sold as a comic book rather than a graphic novel. It's a different distribution network. Amazon, Barnes and Nobel, etc, don't carry weekly/monthly type comics, so they don't have it. I checked a couple of online comics shops and they both had it.
Feminist women will reject any science that blames their stupid dating/coupling decisions on Mother Nature's Biochemical Trap (aka hormones/feel-good brain chemicals) and will blame "The Patriarchy" instead.
It started with the lies about climate change, I am not saying that climate hasn't changed, just that it can never be acknowledged that there are many possible causes, since, you know, climate has always been changing, and only seems to be "stable" for long periods during ice ages, or very warm periods, and life thrived during both. This is an obvious truth that was not allowed to be spoken in "polite conversation."
The idea that COVID was a lab leak is not only perfectly logical, but there is a lot of evidence.
Published: 12 November 2015
Engineered bat virus stirs debate over risky research
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2015.18787
which includes this nonsensical disclaimer which was added later.
Editors’ note, March 2020 We are aware that this story is being used as the basis for unverified theories that the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19 was engineered. There is no evidence that this is true; scientists believe that an animal is the most likely source of the coronavirus.
Wait a minute, "there is no evidence" I guess means that the article that this disclaimer is attached to does not exist!
This kind of nonsense destroyed a lot of people's faith in "approved narratives." That's my new term for "conspiracy theories," BTW, "unapproved narratives."
I love that line about "scientists believe," as if anybody, including scientists, could have a "scientific opinion" on anything that had not been investigated. All the pangolin hypothesis was was a theory, a "non conspiracy" theory, the kind that people who are involved in conspiracies throw into the public sphere.
In a documentary about Crumb on YouTube, he credited his obsession with cross-hatching as one of the things that kept him sane.
Jaq,
The line about "scientists believe" is also vague and content-free because it presumes to lump together anybody who could be considered a "scientist" into a supposed proof-zone. Deception, stupidity, or both?
Ficta said... "I *think* there's a non paranoid explanation (if you want one)..."
The problem there is Amazon also sells on behalf of 3rd parties, sellers of new (or almost-new) collectables... so, still odd to see none there at all. I just ordered one from eBay, which had dozens of copies for sale.
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."
-----Richard Feynman
I just ordered a copy, not on Amazon. Thanks for the tip! Keep on Truckin'!! Fritz the Cat was a big deal in my childhood too.
They bought Nature in order to gain control of the narrative. That's a non-officially approved narrative, but I think that there is plenty of evidence. For instance you can't prove that clouds are made of water just because they drop rain on you, but it's a pretty good guess.
Not being in a school library. Censorship!!!
Not being on Amazon: cool. Cool, cool cool.
I know that Amazon is not the government but they are the bookseller to the world so probably a bigger impact if it isn't there.
He was prescient in When the Naggers Take Over America.
https://www.heretical.com/miscella/rcnoa.html
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