Snatch Comics Treasury

by Robert Crumb, S. Clay Wilson

Snatch Comics Treasury! After creating Zap Comix in 1968, Robert Crumb teamed up with S. Clay Wilson, Robert Williams, Rory Hayes, Victor Moscoso, Jim Osborne, Rick Griffin, and Spain to create three best-selling issues of Snatch Comics. Controversial, incendiary, and erotically satirical, the first and greatest smut comix are now completely collected and digitally remastered! Exclusive commentary by Patrick Rosenkranz (Rebel Visions) and Dan Fogel (Underground Comix Price Guide), with a special color section and fold-outs

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1968

About the author

Robert Dennis Crumb (born August 30, 1943)— is an American artist, illustrator, and musician recognized for the distinctive style of his drawings and his critical, satirical, subversive view of the American mainstream.

Crumb was a founder of the underground comix movement and is regarded as its most prominent figure. Though one of the most celebrated of comic book artists, Crumb's entire career has unfolded outside the mainstream comic book publishing industry. One of his most recognized works is the "Keep on Truckin'" comic, which became a widely distributed fixture of pop culture in the 1970s. Others are the characters "Devil Girl", "Fritz the Cat", and "Mr. Natural".

He was inducted into the comic book industry's Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1991.

Reviews

[David A Townsend · Rating 2 out of 5]

Dated, why was a surprised?

[Fugo Feedback · Rating 2 out of 5]

Según dice el Sr. introductor, en el momento en que se publicaron originalmente estas historias (findes de los 60s), era lo más "radical y subversivo" que se podía leer. Metele que no niego esa afirmación, pero este libro, leído por mí hoy en 2014, me resultó más bien desagradable y avejentado, cual sketch de Olmedo y Porcel acosando colegialas.

[Dominick · Rating 4 out of 5]

This collection reprints the notorious Snatch Comics in its repulsive entirety--all three issues of it--plus biographical and contextualizing essays. Snatch was one of but not quite the most notorious of the underground comics, and presumably its title gives you some indication of why. Even today, some of its imagery is shocking and disturbing, especially the work of Rory Hayes, who makes even S. Clay Wilson look restrained (Hayes' comparatively poor compositional skills are balanced by his sheer disgustingness). The point of this stuff was to be transgressive and shocking, and it succeeds wildly on this front, but at its best--as in the work of Crumb primarily, but to a greater or lesser extent in the work of all of the contibutors, who include most of the best of the underground guys--it's more than perverse transgression and offers wise and sly insights into various cultural taboos and hypocrisies. Recommended for anyone interested in comics history, but definitely not for the faint of heart.