Intégrale Zap Comix Volume 1

<p><strong>In 1968, an unknown young artist named Robert Crumb self-edited the first issue of <em>Zap Comix</em>, which he himself sold with his wife in a baby carriage on the sidewalks of San Francisco. From the following issues, he was joined by S. Clay Wilson, Victor Moscoso, Rick Griffin, Robert Williams, Spain Rodriguez, Gilbert Shelton ... History was on the move. The Underground movement took off and <em>Zap Comix</em> was going to serve as its model. All the author&#39;s comics, until today, finds its point of origin in <em>Zap</em>, its incredible freedom of tone, its complete disregard of conventions, and the demonstration that the comic is such a fertile mode of expression as literature or as art. Here is for the first time in French <em>the complete Zap Comix,</em> a first volume which brings together the first 9 numbers, plus the number 0. Support the publication of this counter-culture monument, and exclusively for this campaign, reserve your copy in hardcover, limited to 200 copies, numbered and with an ex-libris signed by Robert Crumb and Gilbert Shelton!</strong></p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/658959/Inte_grale-Ex-libris-1586850510.jpg" width="100%" /><br /> In 1968, Robert Crumb recently moved to San Francisco, attracted by the hippie movement of which the city is the epicenter. He has been drawing for several years, without yet managing to make a living from it. He decided to launch his first publication, <strong><em>Zap Comix</em></strong>, in February 1968, which sold well, and one comic page of which in particular, Keep on truckin &#39;, became famous across the country.</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/658237/crumb_harkham_1-1586446863.jpg" width="100%" />In june 1968, <strong><em>Zap Comix n &deg; 2</em></strong> appeared. Crumb is joined by the demonic S. Clay Wilson, the surrealist Victor Moscoso, the mystic Rick Griffin, the satirist Gilbert Shelton, the dandy Robert Williams, the champion of the proletariat Spain Rodriguez. If <strong><em>Zap Comix</em></strong> is not the first independent magazine to bring together several cartoonists, it is the first success from the Underground scene. Crumb, Shelton and their comrades became comic rockstars. Their careers are launched, but they find themselves for new issues of <strong><em>Zap Comix</em></strong> over the years, without being subject to any regularity in the publications. For five decades, each of the authors will deploy their personal universe, while commenting on their time, with stunning freedom, until the last issue which appears in 2016. Humor, sex, art, social satire ... After half a century, this literary shell kept all its explosive power.<img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/658245/ZAP_artists_photo_small-1586447673.jpg" width="100%" /></p> <p><em>(&copy; Catherine McGann)</em></p> <p>Editions Stara, specialized since 2008 in the edition of American underground comics (which we call in English as &quot;comix&quot;) present the first volume of the complete <strong><em>Zap Comix,</em></strong> so far unpublished in French language. 472 pages meticulously restored, translated and re-lettered, enriched with interviews with the historic team of <strong><em>Zap</em></strong>, photographs and reproductions of the covers of the first nine issues, also including n &deg; 0, ranging from creation in 1968 to number 9 in 1978. <strong><em>The complete Zap Comix Vol 1</em></strong> will include 520 pages in total, in 19,1x25.5 format, with a paperback cover taking up the cover of number 0.</p> <p><iframe allowfullscreen="" allowtransparency="" frameborder="0" height="325" scrolling="no" src="//v.calameo.com/?bkcode=006016566ad5f4fcfcd7b" width="500"></iframe><br /> <br /> Exclusively for this Kisskissbankbank campaign, we have imagined a limited and numbered head print of 200 copies with a hardcover. Robert Crumb and Gilbert Shelton are happy to sign each an ex-libris included with this limited edition.<br /> <br /> We need you ! For the independent publisher Editions Stara, achieving such an edition is a huge challenge, which will be the culmination of years of work. In 2016, we already published in French <strong><em>Zap Comix n &deg; 16</em></strong>, the very last issue published in the United States in 2016. But it was in 2013 that we started to prepare this complete, in collaboration with the American publisher Fantagraphics Books.<br /> <br /> After having published jewels of the comic book Underground (<strong><em>Binky Brown meets the Holy Virgin Mary</em></strong> of Justin Green, <strong><em>The New Adventures of Jesus</em></strong> by Franck Stack) and the two anthologies <strong><em>Anarchy Comics</em></strong> and <strong><em>Comix Book</em></strong> , the publication of <strong><em>Zap Comix</em></strong> is a real dream for those who are passionate about author comics and counterculture that we are. <strong><em>Zap</em></strong> is the American source of a great creative movement that has turned comics into the ninth art. A generation of artists have expressed themselves without any constraint for almost fifty years. Inexplicably, <strong><em>Zap Comix</em></strong> had never been translated into French. And this while Robert Crumb and Gilbert Shelton, who have both lived in France for years, are enormously appreciated!<br /> <br /> <strong><em>The Complete Zap Comix Vol 1</em></strong> will be released in bookstores in september 2020. Kisskissbankbank subscribers will receive their copy before the release in July 2020, or may come and pick it up at the launch event which will take place in Paris at Th&eacute; Troc, boutique well known to fans of independent comics, in the presence of Gilbert Shelton.<img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/658960/Open-book-1586852253.jpg" width="100%" /></p> <p>During this campaign, you can also order <strong><em>Zap Comix n &deg; 16</em></strong>, as well as the titles previously published by Editions Stara, including those which are completely sold out in the trade like <strong><em>Battle Pape</em></strong> (the French edition <strong><em>of Battle Pope</em></strong>) by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore, the creators of <strong><em>Walking Dead,</em></strong> and <strong><em>Comix Book</em></strong>, the anthology of the Underground comics that were published by Marvel between 1974 and 1976. You can also check the 200 original US underground comics from the personal collection of Stara&rsquo;s founder. And you can choose the range for the number of your limited hardcover edition.</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/659024/Stara-1586866306.jpg" width="100%" /></p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/658679/Comics-Batch-1-1586626198.jpg" width="100%" />Only one copy per title :</p> <ul> <li><strong><em>Bijou Funnies 6 </em></strong>50 cents Poor second printing</li> <li><strong><em>Home Grown Funnies 2 </em></strong>florins Good</li> <li><strong><em>Cherry 5 </em></strong>$2.50 Very Good</li> <li><strong><em>Gay Comix 13 </em></strong>$2.50 Good</li> <li><strong><em>Barefootz funnies 2 </em></strong>75 cents Good first printing</li> <li><strong><em>Yellowdog 24 </em></strong>50 cents Very Good</li> <li><strong><em>Fantagor 1 </em></strong>75 cents Very Good</li> <li><strong><em>Laugh in the dark 1 </em></strong>50 cents Good</li> <li><strong><em>San Francisco Comic Book 2 </em></strong>50 cents Very Good</li> <li><strong><em>Barefootz funnies 1 </em></strong>75 cents Good first printing</li> <li><strong><em>The Spirit 1 </em></strong>50 cents Good</li> <li><strong><em>Spasm ! </em></strong>75 cents Good</li> <li><strong><em>Fantagor 3 </em></strong>75 cents Good</li> <li><strong><em>Young Lust 1 </em></strong>50 cents Good</li> <li><strong><em>Slow Death 10 </em></strong>$1.50 Good</li> <li><strong><em>Yellow Dog comics 19 </em></strong>50 cents Good</li> <li><strong><em>Rowlf </em></strong>50 cents Good</li> <li><strong><em>The People&rsquo;s comics </em></strong>50 cents Good</li> <li><strong><em>Yellow Dog 18 </em></strong>50 cents Good</li> <li><strong><em>Junkwaffel 1</em></strong> 50 cents Poor</li> </ul> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/658680/Comics-Batch-2-1586626207.jpg" width="100%" />Only one copy per title :</p> <ul> <li><strong><em>Barefootz funnies 2</em></strong> 75 cents Good first printing</li> <li><strong><em>Your Hytone Comix</em></strong> 50 cents Good</li> <li><strong><em>Hup 1</em></strong> $ 2.50 Fine</li> <li><strong><em>Hup 2</em></strong> $2.50 Fine</li> <li><strong><em>Cherry 11</em></strong> $3.50 Very Good (without glasses)</li> <li><strong><em>Lemme outa here !</em></strong> $1.00 Fine</li> <li><strong><em>Gay Comix 9</em></strong> $2.00 Very Good</li> <li><strong><em>Yellowdog 23</em></strong> 50 cents Good</li> <li><strong><em>Yellowdog 25</em></strong> 60 cents Good</li> <li><strong><em>Barefootz funnies 1</em></strong> 75 cents Very Good first printing</li> <li><strong><em>Gory Stories Quarterly 2</em></strong> &frac12; 50 cents Very Good</li> <li><strong><em>Snarf 3</em></strong> 50 cents Good</li> <li><strong><em>Facts o&rsquo;life</em></strong> 50 cents Very Good</li> <li>Young Lust<strong><em> 2</em></strong> 50 cents Poor</li> <li><strong><em>Young Lust 3</em></strong> 75 cents Good</li> <li><strong><em>Big ass comics</em></strong> <strong><em>2</em></strong> $3.95 Very Good</li> <li><strong><em>Slow Death 11</em></strong> $2.95 Very Good</li> <li><strong><em>Slow Death 9</em></strong> $1.00 Good</li> <li><strong><em>Skull comics 2</em></strong> 50 cents Good</li> <li><strong><em>Dr Atomic 3</em></strong> 75 Cents Very Good</li> </ul>