Complete Zap Comix

Robert Crumb kicked off the underground comics movement with his classic solo first issue of Zap in 1968. By Zap #2, he had begun assembling a dream team of the wildest, most technically skilled and stylistically diverse cartoonists to come out of the countercultural scene. They were a ragtag bunch of fascinating, wide-ranging personalities, from biker-gang member Spain Rodriguez to Christian surfer Rick Griffin, but somehow they all came together to produce a fruitful, decades-long collaboration: a mind-blowing anthology of abstract hallucination, searing social satire, and shocking sexual excess that inspired the subsequent wave of alternative cartoonists like Daniel Clowes, Chris Ware, and Charles Burns. The Complete Zap Comix collects every issue of Zap —— each cover and story, and even the Zam mini comic jam among the Zap artists —— in a sleekly designed, two-volume slipcased hardcover set.

This gorgeous box set includes an introduction by founder R. Crumb and an oral history of Zap by noted comics historian Patrick Rosenkranz, plus the exclusive 17th unpublished issue featuring stunning new work by Crumb, Moscoco, Wilson, Rodriguez, Shelton, Mavrides, and Williams. It also comes with a limited-edition portfolio of Zap covers by the eight artists, replicated from high resolution scans and proofs, and specially printed on acid-free, 100% cotton fine-art paper utilizing archival pigment inks.

"When Crumb did the first Zap, it just hit the whole underground comics world like a hurricane." —– Spain Rodriguez