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| Gotta Have 'Em: Portraits of Women | 
 enlarge | Authors: R. Crumb, Ron Warren, Neil Gaiman, Grace Yu Ying Smith, Penn, Teller
Publisher: Greybull Press
Category: Book
List Price: $55.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 724779
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 10.4 x 8.4 x 1.2
ISBN: 0967236681
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
EAN: 9780967236681
ASIN: 0967236681
Publication Date: April 2003
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Product Description
He's been called a genius and a "world-class malcontent." R. Crumb, the visionary founder of the underground comics movement and unwilling hipster to multiple generations, celebrated for his viciously funny take on modern America, is also lauded as a draughtsman on par with Breughel. For the first time ever, his drawings of women are collected in one brilliantly offensive yet hilariously poignant volume, in chronological order, spanning the 38 years since his pen-and-ink beginnings. The usual fetishes are on display, natch--the built-from-the-ground-up body type, the lovingly fixated-upon solid thighs and buttocks--but so is Crumb's heart, on his sleeve, in the great tenderness with which he has rendered the women in his life. They're all here: his high-school crushes, his paramours, the girls and women who tormented him--and to whom he gave it right back--or who caught his eye on the street, and, of course, his wife and fiery sometime collaborator, Aline, and their daughter Sophie. Add to this his mistress of fifteen years, and you have not only a catalogue raisonné of Crumb's portraits of women but also a revealing record of a passionate life. Crumb calls it "an autobiography of sorts" and it is--these aren't just portraits of women but the most intimate portrait of Crumb's life in love. Words of wisdom from R. Crumb hisself (sic): All my life I've loved women and hated 'em at the same time, often at the exact same moment!
I realized I was a geek and I wasn't going to make it with the girls. I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.
The only burning passion I'm sure I have, is the passion for sex.
My personal obsession for big women interferes with some people's enjoyment of my work. I knew it was weird and disturbing and even offensive to a lot of people, particularly women. But I couldn't keep it out of the comics. I would always try to give it some sort of metaphorical sense because I derived such masturbatory pleasure out of drawing these women in bizarre situations with these little guys doing stuff to them. Hardcover, 8 x 10 in., 224 pages, 225 b/w Pen & Ink Drawings.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Gotta get this one if you love Crumb's artwork and love or are a big-legged woman! June 12, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Thank you, R. Crumb. It's a great feeling to know that if you knew me you would want to draw me and make me immortal in your wonderful art work!
I must mention before I forget -- I think it was here on Amazon.com that I read a review that said some of the art work in this book was pornographic. I have looked at every single page (and it is a fairly thick book -- much thicker than I expected) and I did not see even one drawing that could be called pornographic. "Soft porn" at the MOST -- and even then I don't think it calls for the word porn unless you are so Puritanistic that you think women's bare nipples or hot pants are obscene. In that case you wouldn't be a lover of Crumb's art work anyhow, right?
I don't like to spend this much on a book but something told me I had to have it, and I am not disappointed in the least! I'm going to make it my coffee table book. It's just big enough to work well for that.
I also enjoyed some of the handwritten words that were included in the book. There is a full page hand-printed introduction by R. Crumb talking about women which is very informative and interesting, and then on some of the drawings -- many of them -- he will put little comic-style clouds around words to let you know something the person was saying while he was drawing -- or what he imagined them thinking or saying.
Absolutely DELIGHTFUL book. Encore, Encore!!
 Only for the TRUE R. Crumb fan March 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This hardcover book is really only for the true R. Crumb collector. Not a book for the comic fan. An art student may find it interesting. I recommend The R. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book (Hardcover) for anyone interested in Robert Crumb's work.
 Nice Crumb Overview May 4, 2003
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
For those new to the work of R. Crumb or those who want a compilation of "women" drawings this is a nice book. Great productions values: the cover, endpapers, binding, paper stock are all first class. The reason I didn't give this 5 stars is because there is very little work from recent years. I counted 6 drawings from 2002, 5 drawings from 2001, and only 2 from 2000. (There are no drawings from 2003). Most of the material is from the 1980's. I would have liked a more even sampling of material throughout the years and would have really been interested to see what new and recent work (if any) he's been doing on the subject of women. If you have the Crumb german sketchbooks, or are collecting the Fantagraphics sketchbooks then there's really no need for this. This is a good "general interest" Crumb collection.
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