Out Nov. 5, 2014.
This is a more-than-complete collection (it includes the unpublished 17th issue!) of the quintessential underground comic book.
There scarcely was an underground comics world before Robert Crumb’s classic solo first issue ofZap. 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 Rodriguez to Christian surfer 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, and even the Zam mini comic jam among the Zap
artists — in a five-volume, slipcased hardcover set. It will also
include the 17th unpublished issue with work by Crumb, Moscoco, Wilson,
Rodriguez, Shelton, Mavrides, and Williams. Plus, an introduction by
founder R. Crumb and an oral history of Zap by Patrick Rosenkranz. Zap is the most historically and aesthetically important comics series ever published.
Also
included exclusively in this boxed set is a portfolio of Zap covers by
the eight artists, replicated from high resolution scans and proofs, and
specially printed for this edition on acid-free, 100% cotton fine-art
paper utilizing archival pigment inks.
Partial color
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