'Somehow the Devil got me'. Crumb's personal selection of his most secret fantasies, colored here just for Taschen. They have little to do with the standard procreative urge, Mr. Crumb admits. He has also said he finds nothing more boring than someone else's sexual obsessions, and yet through his long career the world's most famous underground cartoonist has felt compelled to include his own sex fantasies in his art. He explains it as a compulsive catharsis, while fans call R. Crumb's erotic fantasies the Master at his best. Now Crumb has selected his most intimately revealing comic strips and single page drawings to create a 258 page encyclopedic trip through his sexual psyche. All images were created between 1980 and 2006, and all strips are hand-colored for a lush vibrancy never seen in his comic books. In total the book features 14 complete stories, including "My Troubles With Women", "If I Were a King", "A Bitchin' Bod", and "How To Have Fun With a Strong Girl", as well as 60 single page drawings.
The artist admits it's a little scary to see his most fevered obsessions collected end to end like this, but fans will find "Robert Crumb's Sex Obsessions" a fascinating peek inside an often tortured, always brilliantly talented mind. This unlimited popular edition is for readers on a budget or who were unable to get their hands on the original limited Art Edition.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"This one's a top-shelfer. Mr. R. Crumb has been sketching the cheekiest comic strips for years and this book is a compilation of his best. From 1980 - 2006 it's a witty and sexy guide to his mucky antics." 10 Magazine, London"
Auflage
Sprache
Verlagsort
Illustrationen
chiefly col. Illustrations
Maße
Höhe: 22.5 cm
Breite: 16.6 cm
ISBN-13
978-3-8365-1649-5 (9783836516495)
Schweitzer Klassifikation
Robert Crumb began his career in the late 1960s with Snatch, Zap and other underground comics. His characters Fritz the Cat, Mr. Natural and The Snoid became instant icons, but it was the compulsive exploration of his sex fantasies with strong-legged, big-assed women in his work that made him most notorious. Subject of the award-winning feature film Crumb, he now lives in the south of France with artist wife Aline Kominsky-Crumb. Dian Hanson was born in Seattle in 1951. She has been TASCHEN's sexy book editor since 2001. Prior to that she worked for 25 years producing various men's magazines. Her many books for TASCHEN include The Complete Kake Comics, The Big Book of Breasts, and The Big Penis Book. She lives in Los Angeles.
