{"product_id":"crumb-a-cartoonists-life-hc","title":"CRUMB A CARTOONIST'S LIFE HC","description":"\u003cp\u003eRobert Crumb is often credited with single-handedly transforming the comics medium into a place for adult expression, in the process pioneering the underground comic book industry, and transforming the vernacular language of 20th-century America into an instantly recognizable and popular aesthetic, as iconic as Walt Disney or Charles Schulz.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDan Nadel shares how this complicated artist survived childhood abuse, fame in his twenties, more fame, and came out the other side intact. Crumb is the story of a richly complex life at the forefront of both the underground and popular cultures of post-war America. Including forty-five stunning black-and-white images throughout and a sixteen-page color insert featuring images both iconic and obscure, Crumb spans the pressures of 1950s suburban America and Crumb's highly dysfunctional early family life; the history of comics and graphic satire; 20th century popular music; the world of the counterculture; the birth of underground comic books in 1960s San Francisco with Crumb's Zap Comix; the economic challenges and dissolution of the hippie dream; and the path Robert Crumb blazed through it all. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SIMON \u0026 SCHUSTER","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50881999864117,"sku":"9781982144005","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0260\/3030\/9430\/files\/crumb-a-cartoonists-life-hc.webp?v=1746050326","url":"https:\/\/shop.floatingworldcomics.com\/products\/crumb-a-cartoonists-life-hc","provider":"Floating World Comics","version":"1.0","type":"link"}