
The Complete Zap Comix
Fantagraphics (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 1. September 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
868 pages
979-8-8750-0254-0 (ISBN)
Description
There scarcely was an underground comics world before Robert Crumb's classic solo first issue of Zap in 1968. By Zap #2, he had begun assembling a Seven Samurai of the best, the fiercest, and the most stylistically diversified cartoonists to come out of the countercultural kiln. All of them were extremists of one sort or another, from biker-gang member Spain Rodriguez to Christian surfer Rick Griffin, but somehow, they produced a decades-long collaboration: a mind-blowing anthology of abstract hallucination, throat-slashing social satire, and shocking sexual excess that made possible the ongoing wave of alternative cartoonists like Daniel Clowes, Chris Ware, and Charles Burns.
The Complete Zap Comix collects every issue of Zap -- every cover and every story -- in a three-volume slipcased softcover set. They're all here -- from Zap #0, a solo Crumb issue, through Zap #16, the final issue with work by R. Crumb, Victor Moscoso, S. Clay Wilson, Spain Rodriguez, Gilbert Shelton, Paul Mavrides, Rick Griffin, and Robert Williams.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Seattle
United States
Illustrations
868 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 340 mm
Width: 254 mm
ISBN-13
979-8-8750-0254-0 (9798875002540)
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Persons
Born in Philadelphia, Robert Crumb is one of America's most celebrated artists. Thrust reluctantly into fame as a defining voice of the 1960s and 1970s counterculture with comic strips like Fritz the Cat, Mr. Natural, and Keep on Truckin', then again in the 1990s with the acclaimed documentary Crumb and more recently the 2025 biography Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life, he continues to push himself and his chosen medium from his home in the south of France.