Best Seller Robert Crumb

Sketchbook Vol. 6. 19982011
The last volume of this six-book series has our hero settled in his French home, still illustrating sex fantasies and ranting against the human condition, but increasingly working from photos and historical themes. Images of torture at Abu Ghraib and family portraits are mashed together. Old age hasnt brought contentment.

Silly Fool Comics fills the final page in this final volume, with a devilish creature telling the anguished Crumb, YOU Will Soon Be DEAD! He was a mere 67, but in his self-absorbed Crumbish way was obsessing about death, when not making intimate and loving portraits of his wife Aline and all the other women whod tormented his libido since boyhood. Most impressive in this book are his historic tableau, some single page, others multi-page strips, including Piers the Ploughman of 14th century England, My Secret Life by Walter, Rough Women of the Dark Ages and The Apache Dance, from a 1930s Pa