This month Fantagraphics is making available for the first time ever
The Complete Zap Comix. The 5 volume hardcover limited edition set is $500.00 and the signed edition is $750.00, and are ready for November 2014 delivery, just in time for Christmas gift giving.
There scarcely was an underground comics world before
Robert Crumb's classic solo first issue of
Zap in 1968. By
Zap #2, he had begun assembling a Seven Samurai of the best, the fiercest, and the most stylistically diversified cartoonists to come out of the countercultural kiln. All of them were extremists of one sort or another, from biker-gang member Rodriguez to Christian surfer Griffin, but somehow they produced a decades-long collaboration: a mind-blowing anthology of abstract hallucination, throat-slashing social satire, and shocking sexual excess, that made possible the ongoing wave of alternative cartoonists like Daniel Clowes, Chris Ware, and Charles Burns.
The Complete Zap Comix collects every issue of
Zap — every cover and every story, and even the
Zam mini comic jam among the
Zap artists — in a multi-volume, slipcase hardcover set. It will also include the 17th unpublished issue with work by Crumb, Moscoco, Wilson, Rodriguez, Shelton, Mavrides, and Williams. Plus, an introduction by founder R. Crumb and an oral history of
Zap by Patrick Rosenkranz, and other exclusive bonus features and items TBA.
Zap is the most historically and aesthetically important comics series ever published.
To celebrate the release we are placing our Zap Comix Cover No. 0 Men's t-shirt and our Zap Comix "Plugged In" Men's tees on Sale now through 11-26-14. Enjoy 15% off now exclusively at
kotapparel.com.
Zap--The Comic that plugs you in and started it all!!