{"product_id":"the-complete-zap-comix","title":"Complete Zap Comix [PRE-ORDER 12\/01]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNOT YET AVAILABLE. Pre-order now. This title is scheduled to arrive December 1, 2026.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNote: release dates and prices are tentative and subject to change at the publisher's whim.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhen pre-ordering with multiple items, remember your order will not ship until the last pre-ordered item is in stock. If you want items to ship separately, place separate orders.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe most historically and aesthetically important comics series ever published.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere 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, they produced a decades-long collaboration: a mind-blowing anthology of abstract hallucination, throat-slashing social satire, and shocking sexual excess that made possible the ongoing wave of alternative cartoonists like Daniel Clowes, Chris Ware, and Charles Burns.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Complete Zap Comix collects every issue of Zap — every cover and every story — in a three-volume slipcased softcover set. They're all here — from Zap #0, a solo Crumb issue, through Zap #16, the final issue with work by R. Crumb, Victor Moscoso, S. Clay Wilson, Spain Rodriguez, Gilbert Shelton, Paul Mavrides, Rick Griffin, and Robert Williams.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"When Crumb did the first Zap, it just hit the whole underground comics world like a hurricane.\" — Spain Rodriguez\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Zap epitomised the seismic changes that were happening within American culture as much as any album, novel or film of that era… Zap brought together a new wave of miscreant cartoonists who would define the psychedelic art of the era and later create great works beyond this one comic. Still as essential a part of any alternatively minded adolescent's formative years as the discovery of Jimi Hendrix, Easy Rider or that first tentative tug on a joint...\" — The Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Today, Zap exemplifies how giving the fringe its freedom not only removes a challenging art from being a threat to the social order, it changes mores too.\" — PRINT\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtists\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e R. Crumb \/ Robert Williams \/ Gilbert Shelton \/ Paul Mavrides \/ Spain Rodriguez \/ Victor Moscoso \/ Rick Griffin \/ S. Clay Wilson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fantagraphics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePage Count:\u003c\/strong\u003e 938pp\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9.5 x 12.75\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNotes:\u003c\/strong\u003e paperback, b\/w \u0026amp; color, 3 volume slipcase\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate of Publication:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 1, 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 979-8875002540\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fantagraphics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49030696403200,"sku":"9798875002540","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0053\/3902\/files\/completezapcomix.jpg?v=1784479386","url":"https:\/\/atomicbooks.com\/products\/the-complete-zap-comix","provider":"Atomic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}