Top Pick Robert Crumb

Sketchbook Vol. 3. 19751982
This third volume of Crumb’s Sketchbooks includes his move to rural California, his marriage to Aline Kominsky, the birth of daughter Sophie, as well as Mr. Natural, mischievous Snoids, Arcade comic strips, political discontent, existential angst, huge powerful women, geeky little guys, Mick Jagger, and moral outrage.

Until May 2017, Robert Crumb was simply lauded as the greatest underground artist. Then his cover drawing for the 1969 comic Fritz the Cat sold for a record $ 717,000, the highest price ever realized for any comic, and concepts of under- and aboveground went out the window. Now everything Crumb is fast increasing in value; the perfect time for R. Crumb Sketchbook, Volume 3: Jan. 1975Dec. 1982.

Produced directly from the original artworks now belonging to an ardent French collector, this is one big 444-page Crumb feast for way less than