Featuring R. Crumb's most outrageous sexual comics, Bible of Filth is possibly the dirtiest book around. One of America's most celebrated cartoonists, Crumb helped define cartoon and punk subcultures of the 1960s and 1970s with comic strips like Fritz the Cat , Mr. Natural , and Keep on Truckin' . The open sexuality of his work, paired with frequent self-deprecation and a free, almost stream-of-consciousness style, has made Crumb into a global voice and a renowned contemporary artist. Originally published in France in ...
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Featuring R. Crumb's most outrageous sexual comics, Bible of Filth is possibly the dirtiest book around. One of America's most celebrated cartoonists, Crumb helped define cartoon and punk subcultures of the 1960s and 1970s with comic strips like Fritz the Cat , Mr. Natural , and Keep on Truckin' . The open sexuality of his work, paired with frequent self-deprecation and a free, almost stream-of-consciousness style, has made Crumb into a global voice and a renowned contemporary artist. Originally published in France in 1986 by Futuropolis, the first edition of Bible of Filth was never distributed in the United States because of its graphic sexual content, which included some of Crumb's most explicit comics from underground magazines such as Snatch , Jiz , Zap , XYZ , Big Ass , and Uneeda . This revised and expanded English edition, published by David Zwirner Books, contains all the original pieces from the 1986 volume, with over one hundred pages of additional material. Organized chronologically, there are comics from 1968 to 1986 that were omitted from the first edition and an entirely new selection of work from after 1986. Printed on bible paper and bound in leather, with gold debossing and edging, this volume looks and feels like a traditional bible, with no outward suggestion of what it contains. This revised and expanded Bible of Filth is the perfect introduction for newcomers, while retaining its status as an important collector's item for Crumb enthusiasts around the world.
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As new. 8vo, 19 x 13.5 cm (7.5 x 5.25 inches), publisher's black leather stamped in gilt, mint copy, still in publisher's shrinkwrap, all edges gilded, 335 pp, illustrated with Crumb's comix throughout. This is the first American printing of the edition also issued in 2017 by the Dutch publisher Scratch Books (same dimensions and binding, only that edition has "Scratch Books" stamped in gilt on front cover): this edition supplements the original 1986 limited edition with over 100 pages of additional comics from 1968-86 and 1987-2006. Apparently this volume contains the filthiest, most obscene, vile, outrageous and disgusting of Crumb's work, which we hope is a selling point! (The pictures we took of the contents are from an open copy we have).
