Crumb's Most Controversial Comics
Bible of Filth
Notes: "The pleasure is ours folks! We really like drawing dirty cartoons! It helps us get rid of pent-up anxieties and repressions and that kind of stuff... We hope you enjoy lookin' at 'em as much as we enjoy drawin' em!!"—preface.
The Bible of Filth is the most notoriuos of R. Crumb's underground comic collections. It gathers Crumb's most offensive publications from 1968 to 1986 into one book. Crumb's reputation as an artist may well rest on whether these graphic comics are seen in the future as racist and sexist or as commentaries on racism and sexism.
4-1/2 by 6-1/4 inches. Perhaps 100 pages, printed on very thin paper. One of 1000 numbered copies.
Edition + Condition: First edition (first printing). A fine copy in thin black boards (hardcover); no jacket, as issued. This is copy 610 of 1000, numbered on the colophon.
Publication: Paris: Futuropolis, 1986.
Item No: #362175
Price: $750