R.
CRUMB
TRADING
CARDS - NEW 36 CARD BOXED
SET!
Thirty-Six
different
characters with short histories on the reverse! Robert Crumb Trading Cards is the perfect gift or addition to the
collection of any even half-serious Crumb fan. The boxed set is very
similar in format to the popular Heroes of the Blues, Early Jazz Greats and Pioneers of Country
Music card sets also
published by Denis Kitchen Publishing
and available here and from
specialty retailers everywhere. $11.95
Featured characters include... the
mysterious guru Mr. Natural; his loyal devotee Flakey Foont; The
Nerds; Pete the Plumber (and his sidekick Plungo); Whiteman and Yeti the Bigfoot both from Homegrown Funnies; Ruff
Tuff
Creampuff; the raining Meatball from Zap
#0; Shuman the Human; Dirty
Dog; Smelly Old Cat; The
Desperate
Character; Mr. Appropriate (way ahead of his time on the ecology front);
Vulture Demoness (the dominatrix from Big Ass #1-2); Eggs Ackley (whose eyeballs were stolen by crows in Motor City #1); Sally Blubberbutt; Fritz
the
Cat (star of the Ralph
Bakshi animated cartoons who was then permanently killed in People’s Comix); Those
Cute
Little
Bearzy
Wearzies (Jippo and Boopsy); The big-foot
character from Keep on Truckin’; Onion
Head; Patricia Pig; Forky
O’Donnell
(you don’t want to have lunch with this guy!); Squirelly the Squirrel; Cheesis
K.
Reist, star of “Hamburgers!”; Boingy
Baxter; The Simp and The Gimp; Ruth
Schwartz (the original “gurl” in
Big Ass #1 who later helped Flakey Foont
institutionalize Mr. Natural in Mr. Natural #3); Devil
Girl
(from before she had
a
line of candy); Mr. Snoid; Angelfood
McSpade, The Old Pooperoo; Dale
Steinberger the Jewish Cowgirl; Joe Blow (from the infamous Zap
#4 bust); Little Johnny
Fuckerfaster; Bo Bo Belinski (the drunk, not the baseball player); and
Robert Crumb himself (a nice self-portrait, but he’s also a
regular cast member).
On the
back of each card
is a concise character synopsis written by the late comics historian Dave Schreiner, accompanied by 2-color bonus
illustrations. All in a snappy box designed by Robert
Crumb and Pete
Poplaski.
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Publisher’s
Note: This is the first printing from Denis Kitchen Publishing. Old
hippies and a few collectors will remember a similar set published by
Kitchen Sink Press way back in 1991. How is this
set different? First, if you compare boxes, the cover design has been
significantly tweaked by Crumb: his background characters and cityscape
in the 1991 version are gone and the “I am not a swan” quote is new.
The box lettering is new and bolder. The new box has a glossy finish.
The Patricia Pig image (card #21) is all-new, and the beak on Vulture
Demoness (card #14) has been fixed, among the differences discerning
fans will note. In summation, the sets, two decades apart, are very
similar, but certainly not identical.
(older box on left, new box on right)
