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R. Crumb: Existential Comics: Selected Stories 1979-2004

Contributor(s): Crumb, R (Author), Nadel, Dan (Editor)

ISBN: 9781644231531

Publisher: David Zwirner Books

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Pub Date: May 27, 2025

Dewey: 741.5973

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Illustrated, Price on Product

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.90" H x 11.10" L x 8.70" W ( 2.35 lbs) 208 pages

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Description: "This volume brings together twenty-five of R. Crumb's most ambitious, acclaimed, and profound comics."--Provided by publisher.

Brief description: Dan Nadel is the author of the forthcoming book Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life (April 2025). His previous books include It's Life as I See It: Black Cartoonists in Chicago (2021), Peter Saul: Professional Artist Correspondence (2020), and Art Out of Time: Unknown Comic Visionaries (2006). Nadel has curated exhibitions for galleries and museums internationally, including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, UC Davis, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He is the founder of PictureBox, a publishing and packaging company that produced more than one hundred books, objects, and zines, including the Grammy Award-winning design for Wilco's 2004 album A Ghost Is Born. Nadel is the curator-at-large for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, in Los Angeles.

Review Quotes: "In an era where paranoia and our insatiable need to explain each of our worries and fears to an audience of glass screens, Crumb remains both ahead of his time and worried about where time is taking him." -- "The Unibrow"

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