R. Crumb: Existential Comics: Selected Stories 1979–2004This volume brings together twenty five of R. Crumbs most ambitious, acclaimed, and profound comics. One of the most influential and iconic cartoonists of our time, R. Crumb is celebrated for pushing the boundaries of representation, mass consumerism, and polite society. The comics in this volume exemplify Crumbs creative output over twenty five years following his early experimentation in the 1960s and 1970s. The comics collected here depict

monuments of world-building to mind-bending dystopias

Fenton illustrates his comments with verse from all over the English-speaking world

community-leaders

” —Anand Giridharadas

and an undeclared war on the island ninety miles to the south

Already the subject of controversy during its original 2021-2022 run at the Theater for the New City in the East Village

From Dash Shaw

In PALO ALTO

like True Grit

adopting the Israeli narrative

Ranging from Ruby Ridge to the Chinese restaurant in Virginia where “paleoconservatives” devised a new politics for “Middle American Radicals

These essays deliver hilarious and incredibly insightful meditations on body image