COMPLETE ZAP COMIX TP (MR) (16 Dec Release)

There scarcely was an underground comics world before Robert Crumb's classic solo first issue of Zap in 1968. 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 Spain Rodriguez to Christian surfer Rick 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 — in a three-volume slipcased softcover set. They're all here — from Zap #0¸ a solo Crumb issue¸ through Zap #16¸ the final issue with work by R. Crumb¸ Victor Moscoso¸ S. Clay Wilson¸ Spain Rodriguez¸ Gilbert Shelton¸ Paul Mavrides¸ Rick Griffin¸ and Robert Williams.