Editions Cornelius makes beautiful books and this Crumb comic is another incredible production by them. Under its screen-printed covers are page after page of beautifully rendered Crumb absurdity. This comic book has minimal text, entirely in English.

This is a Pre-Order item. The book is expected to arrive late December 2024 or early January 2025. Orders will ship immediately upon receipt of the books.

From the publisher:

Collected for the first time in an anthology, the 14 stories in this book all share a common theme of playing with nonsense and absurdity. Partly wordless -- if we exclude the gimmicks, onomatopoeia, and invented idioms preserved in their original form --the short stories in this collection allow Crumb to fully enjoy playing with the dynamism of his artwork.

The characters jump in all directions, the bodies deform infinitely, pushed by a permanent delirious movement, or evolve in a completely surrealist setting. Like the famous "Keep on truckin'", you have to keep moving forward at all costs, even when you are aware that you do not know where you are going. Produced between 1966 and 1981, the stories of Absurd comics illustrate a particular vein of Robert Crumb. Dictated by drugs or by the sole desire to draw, these stories are intended to be without narrative, without logic and without constraint to tell anything.

The author here engages in an exercise in automatic writing, as Moebius did shortly after him - the latter summed up the experience thus: "One can very well imagine a story in the form of an elephant, a wheat field, or the flame of a sulfur match."

By freeing himself from the narrative and giving power to the unconscious, Crumb finds a new freedom that inspires graphically fabulous pages, among the most beautiful and most inappropriate that he has drawn during his career.

This is a Pre-Order item. The book is expected to arrive late December 2024 or early January 2025. Orders will ship immediately upon receipt of the books.

Please note that if you buy a preorder and an "available item" together, your order will not be shipped until the preordered item is released. If you want to get the books that are already available, the best way is to place two separate orders.