Robert Crumb's Sex Obsessions - Tapa dura

They have little to do with the standard procreative urge, Mr. Crumb admits. He has also said he finds nothing more boring than someone else's sexual obsessions, and yet through his long career the world's most famous underground cartoonist has felt compelled to include his own sex fantasies in his art. He explains it as a compulsive catharsis, while fans call R. Crumb's erotic fantasies the Master at his best. Now Crumb has selected his most intimately revealing comic strips and single page drawings to create a 256 page encyclopedic trip through his sexual psyche. All images were created between 1980 and 2006, and all strips are colored for a lush vibrancy never seen in his comic books. In total, the book features 14 complete stories, including "My Troubles With Women II", "If I Were a King", "A Bitchin' Bod" and "How To Have Fun With a Strong Girl", as well as 62 single page drawings. This signed, slipcased, limited edition of 1,000 copies is a work of art in itself, with every part of the book - case, front and back covers, spine, introduction and pre-introduction pages - created for this project by Robert Crumb. Each book also comes with a print on mould-made age-resistant hahnemuehle paper pulled from an original watercolor by Robert Crumb. The artist admits it's a little scary to see his most fevered obsessions collected and to end like this, but fans will find R. Crumb's "Sex Obsessions" a fascinating peek inside an often tortured, always brilliantly talented mind, as well as an unparalleled collector's item.

Robert Crumb began his career in the late 1960s with Snatch, Zap and other underground comics. His characters Fritz the Cat, Mr. Natural and The Snoid became instant icons, but it was the compulsive exploration of his sex fantasies with strong-legged, big-assed women in his work that made him most notorious. Subject of the award-winning feature film Crumb, he now lives in the south of France with artist wife Aline Kominsky-Crumb. Dian Hanson is TASCHEN's sexy book editor and long time friend of Robert Crumb. As a 25 year veteran of men's magazine publishing she edited titles including Puritan, Oui, Outlaw Biker, Juggs, Big Butt and Leg Show. Her most recent books for TASCHEN include Dian Hanson's History of Men's Magazines six volume set, The Big Book of Breasts, Richard Kern's Action and The New Erotic Photography.