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...Crumb," came out in 1994, he became the world's best-known comicbook artist. Residing in France since the 1990s, Crumb's output has slowed. But this month fans will get a double dose of Crumb material both old and new. "The Complete Crumb Comics" volume 16 (Fantagraphics Books; 128pp.; $18.95) continues a series of annual books that seeks to include every scrap of Crumb's work in chronological order. Even better, "Mystic Funnies" number three (Fantagraphics Books; 32pp.; $3.95) contains all new material in each of Crumb's classic styles...
...Sshhhh!" (Fantagraphics Books; 128pp.; $14.95) consists of ten short vignettes that occasionally relate to each other. The only words that appear are a few onomatopoeia such as "ring," "poff" and "boom." All of them feature a bird-man character with webbed feet and a crow's beak wearing a jacket and hat from the 1950s. The stories mix reality with nonsense, and humor with sadness. One episode has the bird-man followed around by a skeleton no one else can see. Unable to ditch the specter of death, bird-man accepts him as a houseguest, sharing his snacks and bathroom...
Eddie Campbell's new book, "Alec: How to be an Artist," ($13.95, 128pp.) should not be confused with books like Lee & Buscema's "How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way," or Will Eisner's "Graphic Storytelling." Consider the cover: a man sits with his head in his hand, thinking. This book means to be part memoir, part essay on the nature of being a capitol-A Artist, and part history of Campbell's chosen art form...
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