The Complete Zap Comix

Available from Fantagraphics when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

The most historically and aesthetically important comics series ever published. There scarcely was an underground comics world before Robert Crumb's classic solo first issue of Zap in 1968. By Zap #2, he had begun assembling a Seven Samurai of the best, the fiercest, and the most stylistically diversified cartoonists to come out of the countercultural kiln. All of them were extremists of one sort or another, from biker-gang member Spain Rodriguez to Christian surfer Rick Griffin, but somehow, th