The Book of Mr. Natural by Robert Crumb5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Fantagraphics has since gained an international reputation for its literate and audacious editorial standards and its exacting production values. ![]() This collection features over 120 pages of vintage Crumb comics starring the white-bearded. Fantagraphics quickly established a reputation as an advocacy publisher that specialized in seeking out and publishing the kind of innovative work that traditional comics corporations who dealt almost exclusively in super-heroes and fantasy either didn?t know existed or wouldn?t touch: serious, dramatic, historical, journalistic, political, and satirical work by a new generation of alternative cartoonists as well as many artists who gained prominence as part of the seminal underground comix movement of the '60s. Natural (Hardcover Ed.) by Robert Crumb - page. ![]() By the early 1980s, Fantagraphics found itself at the forefront of the burgeoning movement to establish comics as a medium as eloquent and expressive as the more established popular arts of film, literature, poetry, et al. Fantagraphics Books has been a leading proponent of comics as a legitimate form of art and literature since it began publishing the critical trade magazine The Comics Journal in 1976. ![]()
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