R. Crumb Conversations

Library Bookwatch, Jan, 2005

R. Crumb Conversations

D. K. Holm, Editor

University Press of Mississippi

3825 Ridgewood Road, Jackson, MS 39211

www.upress.state.ms.us

1578066379 $20.00 1-800-737-7788

Fans of underground comix art who wish for insights into the counterculture artist and innovator R. Crumb, whose illustrations have received wide distribution both in his own collections and on the faces of records, newspapers, and t-shirts, will find R. Crumb Conversations an excellent gathering of interviews and profiles covering various periods of Crumb's life and works. Comic art jokes, interactions with publishers and the public, and Crumb's influence on the underground comic art world are all revealed in the course of some excellent surveys.