{"product_id":"robert-crumb-sketchbook-vol-4-1982-1989","title":"Robert Crumb: Robert Crumb. Sketchbook Vol. 4. 1982-1989 [2018] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first three volumes of this series were met with fervent acclaim from our readers, most of whom have been lying in wait for an affordable trade edition since the $ 1,000 boxed sets appeared. They laud these 440-page editions for their quality hardcover, elegant matte paper, and impeccable reproduction as the best of the best-the perfect tribute to the world's favorite dirty old man.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExpect this book to be no different. Combining volumes 7 and 8 from the first boxed set (confusing, we know), it spans the years 1982 to 1989, a period when the artist was comfortably ensconced in rural California, raising his young daughter Sophie, who appears throughout this volume. But Crumb was still Crumb, declaring in one drawing, above a lovingly rendered tree, \"As I get older I get more twisted, convoluted, depraved, cynical, embittered, self-centered, jaded, debauched, ruthless, greedy, conceited, set-in-my-ways, long-winded, absent-minded, prejudiced, closed-minded, misanthropic, nervous...\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo prove this self-flagellating analysis he fills the pages with his signature perversions (in country settings), scathing social commentary, cruel self-portraits, experimental cubism... and some lovely sylvan landscape. His mastery of the Rapidograph pen is at its zenith here in his 40s; we only wish he'd chosen to include his prescient comic of Donald Trump from 1989.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Crumb, Robert","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46577128931667,"sku":"9783836566964","price":24.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/crumb-robert-robert-crumb-robert-crumb-sketchbook-vol-4-1982-1989-2018-hardback-9783836566964-57850213531987.jpg?v=1726720331","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/robert-crumb-sketchbook-vol-4-1982-1989","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}