Whole Earth Review #61
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free"A Short History of America..." by Robert Crumb is a landmark piece in underground comics, tracing the transformation of a peaceful American grassland into a bustling, consumer-driven cityscape. Crumb’s distinctive art and incisive storytelling are on full display, culminating in an epilogue that presents three starkly different futures for the land—each a quiet, potent meditation on progress and consequence.
A young woman walks through a changing American landscape, from open grasslands to a bustling commercial street, as the scene evolves across a few quiet pages. The story ends with an epilogue that presents three possible futures for the land, each offering a different turn for its fate.
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↩ Reprints CoEvolution Quarterly #23 (1979)
Reprinted in R. Crumb's America #[nn] (1995), The Complete Crumb Comics #17 (2005), R. Crumb: Existential Comics, Selected Stories 1979-2014 #[nn] (2025)
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