R. Crumb is undoubtedly the foremost cartoonist of the latter 20th Century, and his sketchbooks, in which has drawn for 40 years, might rank as his finest achievement. This comprehensive series reproduces these sketchbooks in facsimile form, offering a rare and often raw insight into Crumb's creative process and development. Volume 9, covering 1972-1974, represents one of the more inquisitve and soul-searching periods in this phenomenal artist's life, coinciding with his rise to fame and rejection of the late '60s hippie counterculture that made him famous. In b/w.