The R. Crumb Coffee Table
Art Book
1st Printing
TOUANC Price Guide #n/a
1997
Little, Brown and Company
11 3/8" x 13 1/4"
$40.00
260 pages
Printrun: ?
Cover: Glossy Stock
Guts: White
ISBN: 0-316-16306-6
Comments:
Hardcover book with duskjacket.

See also:
SRUCC: The Books of Robert Crumb
Grand Comics Database: The R. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book

Artists:
Peter Poplaski (editor, designer)
Robert Crumb - fdj, ifdj(a), fc, ifc, ii, iv, vi, 1-5, 7-18+, 19-252, ibc, ibdj(a), bdj
Charles Crumb - 6, 7-18+
Stories:
fdj - The R. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book
ifdj - About Robert Crumb
ibdj - About Robert Crumb (cont.)
bdj - Nov Shmoz K'Pop
fc - Yeah, but is it art?
ifc - Bare Yer Soul On Th' Page
ii - blank page
iii - Mr. Natural and his pal R. Crumb
iv - Robert Crumb (photo)
v - Title page
vi - Indicia
vii - Contents
viii - blank page
1 - Fulminations: I Rarely Ever Get Cohesive Ideas
2 - 1954: Little Bobby Crumb & His Brother Chuck, A Couple Of Comic-Book Wimps
3 - My Earliest Memory Of Comic Books Is The Way They Smelled
23 - I Consider The Best Of The American Media Of The Old Days To Be A Classical Education By Today's Standards
35 - I Had Seen the First Issue of Mad Comics on the Newsstand and I Remember Being Bewildered by It! "It's Melvin!" What Does This Mean?
41 - When I Left Home My Father Bought Me A Bus Ticket To Cleveland And Loaned Me $14
57 - I Wanted To Be On My Own So Bad...And Just Worry About No One But Myself
67 - LSD Was Legal In 1965, The First Time I Took It
77 - Starting In The Mid-Sixties, I Would Spin Out All Kinds Of Ideas For Cartoons In Sketchbooks
85 - I Drew The First Two Issues Of Zap Comix In Late 1967
95 - I Was Very Alienated From The Hippie Scene! I Used To Go To Love-Ins And Rock Concerts And Think "Why Can't I Get With It?"
109 - My Personal Obsession For Big Women Sometimes Interferes With Some People's Enjoyment Of My Work
137 - The '70s Was The "Burn-Out Decade!" The Big Party Was Over
179 - I Believe In Everything...UFOs, Bigfoot, Channeling, ESP...I Believe It All
191 - To Be Interested In Old Music Is To Be A Social Outcast
207 - My High School Art Teach Didn't Like Me. He Said, "If You Keep Doing Cartoons, You'll Wind Up Selling Pencils On The Street"
247 - Do I Think Of Myself As An Entertainer? Yeah...Ya Gotta Amuse 'Em Or You'll Loss 'Em! Ta Ha!
251 - blank page
252 - It's Ridiculous
bc - blank