Word: mystics
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...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...
...Mystic Funnies" starts out with the story of "The Hipman," another of Crumb's acid portrayals of a modern, frustrated, vulgar American. Sporting a mullet and a T-shirt that says "Empire Builder" on it, Hipman drives around in his one-man European car, worrying about how hip he is. Since this is a Crumb comic, a big-legged, big-chested Amazon soon puts him out of sorts, getting him in trouble with an even more diminutive, backwards-baseball-capped, trash-talking "gangsta'" named "Fishlips." Every era has received a similar razzing at the hands of Mr. Crumb. Fritz...
...teen-age Crumb says hello to a pair of "stunningly beautiful 1950s American highschool girls" in "Mystic Funnies...
...Mystic Funnies" #3 ends with the kind of story that made Crumb famous - the like of which he hasn't touched in years - dirty, funny animals. This "Fritz the Cat" style combines Crumb's two biggest comic influences: the anarchic early issues of "Mad" magazine and the simplicity of the Donald Duck comics. This one stars "Super Duck, The Cockeyed Wonder." Uwanna, "Super Duck's" girlfriend, gets tired of him falling asleep on the couch after making him dinner. So Supes orders some special pills from the back of the "Beat Off" magazine his nephew Fauntleroy gets caught reading...
...sampling each of Robert Crumb's most famous styles, "Mystic Funnies" #3 works as a less expensive version of the "Complete Crumb" series. Both newcomers and long-time fans should be pleased...