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Combining volumes 7 and 8 from the first boxed set (confusing, we know), it spans the years 1982 to 1989, a period when the artist was comfortably ensconced in rural California, raising his young daughter Sophie, who appears throughout this volume. But Crumb was still Crumb, declaring in one drawing, above a lovingly rendered tree, "As I get older I get more twisted, convoluted, depraved, cynical, embittered, self-centered, jaded, debauched, ruthless, greedy, conceited, set-in-my-ways, long-winded, absent-minded, prejudiced, closed-minded, misanthropic, nervous..." To prove this self-flagellating analysis he fills the pages with his signature perversions (in country settings), scathing social commentary, cruel self-portraits, experimental cubism... and some lovely sylvan landscape. His mastery of the Rapidograph pen is at its zenith here in his 40s;

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Other Details:

• Publisher: OTHER PUBLISHERS, TASCHEN AMERICA L.L.C.
• Product Type: Novels
• Issue Number: 4
• Cover Number: 1
• Ratio: 1
• Price: 50.0000
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• ISNM: 3836566966
• EAN: 978383656696490000
• Mature: Y
• Adult: N
• Writer:
• Artist: Crumb, Robert
• Cover Artist: Crumb, Robert
• GeekFetch Series Code: 1012879
• Diamond Series Code: 136774
• Diamond Code: FEB252008
• Diamond Ship Date: 2025-04-09
• Diamond FOC Date: 2025-03-01
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