The Complete Crumb Comics #9

Volume 9 of Fantagraphics' archival series pits R. Crumb against "The Sisterhood" right on the cover, where a leering, bug-eyed Crumb caricature squares off against a defiant young woman in a yellow shirt, speech bubbles flying between them in classic underground-comics style. The large-format hardcover, priced at $39.95, collects a substantial body of Crumb's work in the kind of handsome package that serious readers of American alternative comics were hungry for in 1992. It's a candid, unfiltered look at one of underground comix's most provocative cartoonists, presented with the care and commitment to the form that Fantagraphics built its reputation on.