Robert Crumb's Sex Obsessions Author:Dian Hanson Crumb s personal selection of his most secret fantasies, colored just for TASCHEN — They have little to do with the standard procreative urge, Mr. Crumb admits. He has also said he finds nothing more boring than someone else s sexual obsessions, and yet through his long career the world s most famous underground cartoonist has felt compell... more »ed to include his own sex fantasies in his art. He explains it as a compulsive catharsis, while fans call R. Crumb s erotic fantasies the Master at his best.
Now Crumb has selected his most intimately revealing comic strips and single page drawings to create a 258 page encyclopedic trip through his sexual psyche. All images were created between 1980 and 2006, and all strips are hand-colored for a lush vibrancy never seen in his comic books. In total the book features 14 complete stories, including My Troubles With Women, If I Were a King, A Bitchin Bod, and How To Have Fun With a Strong Girl, as well as 60 single page drawings.
The artist admits it s a little scary to see his most fevered obsessions collected end to end like this, but fans will find Robert Crumb s Sex Obsessions a fascinating peek inside an often tortured, always brilliantly talented mind.
This unlimited popular edition is for readers on a budget or who were unable to get their hands on the original limited Art Edition.
This one s a top-shelfer. Mr. R. Crumb has been sketching the cheekiest comic strips for years and this book is a compilation of his best. From 1980 2006 it s a witty and sexy guide to his mucky antics. 10 Magazine, London« less