I was looking around for another volume of Crumb's collected works, and found this, part of a series of "handbooks" about the world's famous artistic I was looking around for another volume of Crumb's collected works, and found this, part of a series of "handbooks" about the world's famous artistic or intellectual leaders. Crumb is one of the five most influential comics artists on the planet, so he fits the leadership bill. This collection would go well with the Aacdemy-Award nominated documentary bio-pic, called Crumb. This more than 400 page volume includes letters, photographs, journals, examples of a range of his work from a variety of periods. It is a terrific one volume look at Crumb if you wanted to get a good look at his work, and it doesn't shy away from crises he faced from the perspective of offensiveness (he often was; he was not trying to be mainstream, ever). At the point of international fame, Crumb chose to go in a more "alternative comix" direction (for example, with more sexual content and exploring controversial themes). He's never dull, and often outrageous. ...more