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Anchored by Crumb's contributions to the seminal anthology \u003ci\u003eWeirdo\u003c\/i\u003e, created and edited by Crumb, this volume includes the first several appearances of classic Crumb character Mode O' Day, the networking fashion plate that serves as a foil for some of Crumb's most biting satire about America's cultural \"elite.\" Other \u003ci\u003eWeirdo\u003c\/i\u003e highlights include Crumb's fascinating adaptation of Dr. R. Von Krafft-Ebing's \"Psychopathia Sexualis,\" and \"Where Has it Gone, all the Beautiful Music of Our Grandparents?\", two stories often-cited as being amongst Crumb's very best work.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAlso included are Crumb's first collaborations with the late writer Charles Bukowski, including the chapbook \"Bring Me Your Love,\" as well as several collaborations with Harvey Pekar from his autobiographical series \u003ci\u003eAmerican Splendor\u003c\/i\u003e. The book is rounded out with a color section that includes rare album art for various jazz and blues greats, as well reproductions of his various comic book covers from this period. Crumb is the most revealing of all artists, and \u003ci\u003eThe Complete Crumb Comics\u003c\/i\u003e leaves no stone unturned. Featuring a lengthy introduction by Peter Bagge.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003eBorn in Philadelphia, \u003cb\u003eRobert Crumb\u003c\/b\u003e is one of America’s most celebrated artists. Thrust reluctantly into fame as a defining voice of the 1960s and 1970s counterculture with comic strips like \u003ci\u003eFritz the Cat, Mr. Natural\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eKeep on Truckin’\u003c\/i\u003e, then again in the 1990s with the acclaimed documentary \u003ci\u003eCrumb\u003c\/i\u003e and more recently the 2025 biography \u003ci\u003eCrumb: A Cartoonist’s Life\u003c\/i\u003e, he continues to push himself and his chosen medium from his home in the south of France.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Bagge\u003c\/b\u003e  created \u003ci\u003eHate\u003c\/i\u003e, one of the bestselling and most influential comic book series of the past quarter century. Born in New York in 1957, after graduating from the School of Visual Arts, Bagge contributed to and, along with R. Crumb, edited the underground anthology \u003ci\u003eWeirdo\u003c\/i\u003e. Bagge's numerous original graphic novels and collections of comics have won him multiple Harvey Awards, an Inkpot Award, and numerous Eisner Award nominations. He lives in Tacoma, WA.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHarvey Pekar\u003c\/b\u003e (1939-2010) was a comic book writer and author of the autobiographical \u003ci\u003eAmerican Splendor\u003c\/i\u003e series, which was adapted into an Academy Award nominated film. 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