R. Crumb Sketchbook Vol. 1: 1964 to Mid '65 2025 Comic-Con Sickles and Caniff letterer Frank

Sickles and Caniff letterer Frank Engli interviewed

This collection features an extra 26-page bonus making-of section with the layouts for 24 pages and hundreds of unpublished sketches

but he was an illustrator of books long before his career in satire began

John Carter of Mars

and La Luchadores

R. Crumb Sketchbook Vol. 1: 1964 to Mid '65 2025 Comic-Con Sickles and Caniff letterer FrankStraight from his bound sketchbooks, 160 pages of unfiltered, uncensored Crumb. From the publisher: "I'm anxious to see the Sketchbooks come out," sez R. Crumb. And all comics fans should be, too, for the R. Crumb Sketchbook series reprints Crumb's personal sketchbooks, the immediate products of Mr. Obsessive Sketcher's genius. Personally selected by the artist, the drawings in these volumes include much material never seen before, not even in the