Fanta sez:  "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 Comixcollects every issue of Zap — every cover and every story, and even the Zam mini comic jam among the Zap artists — in a multi-volume, slipcased 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 It will also include the 17th unpublished issue with work by Crumb, Moscoco, Wilson, Rodriguez, Shelton, Mavrides, and Williams.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."

Five-volume hardcover boxed set; Limited, single-printing edition

920  pages; 9” x 12”; black & white with color

featuring:  R. Crumb, Rick Griffin, Paul Mavrides, Victor Moscoso, Spain Rodriguez, Gilbert Shelton, Robert Williams, and S. Clay Wilson

ISBN: 9781606997871

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S. Clay Wilson interviewed by John Benson

Alex Robinson interviewed by Tom Crippen

3-Page, full color interview with Joe Matt – in-comics-form, by Noah Van Sciver!

32 pages of comics by Center for Cartoon Studies, Class of 2008, including 4-pager ("Pretty Kitty") by Chuck Forsman, and 3-pagers by Joseph Lambert and Sean Ford!!!

BONUS: 8-page preview of Travel by Yuichi Yokoyama

NOTE: TCJ cover sticker removed