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KITCHEN: Yes, but I’m talking strictly about Krupp. Is as much based on your more diversified operations, too? SHERMAN : Would you say that your current stability To that Crash of ’73, not to mention the Supreme Court The same mistake and those decisions partly contributed Some questionable.books that I now am a little ashamed Publisher I gave in to their demands by publishing In 1972, distributors would call and literallyīeg for new books, and as a younger and more naive We ever were in the past, even though in 1972 sales wereīrisker. Say that we are more stable as a publishing company Reflect sales as much as inflated dollars, but I safely The books has gone up, thus the annual gross doesn’t To some degree it’s true that there has been aĭecline in overall sales, and it’s true that the price of

Predictions that underground comix were dying,ĭying, dying, in fact we were grossing more thanĮver.

This was in 1973, the famed ComicsĬrash of ’73. Was a brief period, when I frankly doubted we would Money at the grocery store than comic books. We had, and he, like everyone else, would rather spend

Pay him in comic books, of all things, because that’s all We were in deep financial trouble and we were forced to SHERMAN: At One point it seemed as if his relationship Stands as a whole and ultimately he bears responsibility Imagine myself turning down a Crumb because Iįound parts of it potentially unpopular, or offensive. Publishing it as is or not publishing it at an, and 1 can’t Probably the least likely to take editorial direction, so asĪ publisher am basically faced with the prospect of Much more independent than most cartoonists, and he’s It a privilege to be able to work with him closely. Universally damned, it has been severely criticized.Ĭrumb’s a very complex person, of course, and I can’tĮxplain him. Praised while some of the other material hasn’t been Strip “A Short HiStory of America” has been universally KITCHEN: Well, both, but primarily thematic. SHERMAN: Is that on artistic, or just thematic Material which some people think is his absolute worstĪnd his absolute best work side by side, so. Solo Crumb book we did was Snoid, which contained KITCHEN: Oh, that’s one I hear very often. Sources for publishing Crumb’s Work, which is offensive Of course, I also come under a lot of heat from various I ‘d say this is another example of its being justifiable. I think that the term peopleĪlways use with certain of these artists is “genius” but KITCHEN: There’s another guy it’s been a great Relationship with some of its other artists. SHERMAN: This brings us into a discussion Of Krupp’s Sherman interviews Kitchen in The Comics Journal #63, page 223: (But I guess most of his work ended up in Weirdo in the 80s.)īill Sherman writes in The Comics Journal #58, page 91: It’s an odd book, even as Crumb solo books go, and I can see why Crumb stopped doing these for a while. The most memorable strip here (and I say that because it’s the only strip I can remember having read before) is this one: The Snoid roofies and abuses a prostitute, and first it’s played for yuks… and then it ends on a melancholic, sorrowful note, as if Crumb is apologising for what he’s put her through. So there’s a lot of kvetching with some occasional hi-jinx. But this book feels like it’s spinning its wheels: None of the stories go anywhere. The artwork here is lovelier than ever - and that bit with the tiny grandparents is genius. I guess the Snoid is Crumb making fun of his own worst impulses?

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He wouldn’t start doing those again for the better part of a decade - he returned with the Hup series (from Last Gasp in 1987). This is Crumb’s final solo book for quite a while.