Fantagraphics to Publish The Complete ZAP Comix

[kpete]

Fantagraphics to Publish The Complete ZAP Comix
Written by Eric Reynolds | Filed under Zap, Victor Moscoso, spain, Robert Williams, Robert Crumb, Gilbert Shelton, Coming Attractions 23 Jul 2011 2:00 PM

Fantagraphics Books President and Co-Publisher Gary Groth announced today at Comic-Con International that the Seattle-based publisher has entered into an agreement to publish The Complete ZAP Comix in Fall of 2012.

ZAP remains the best-known and most influential underground comic of all-time, and in many ways is Ground Zero for the entire field of underground, alternative, literary and art comics that exists today. Created by Robert Crumb, it was one of the defining events in the counterculture of the 1960s and singlehandedly launched the “underground comix” era.

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The Complete ZAP Comix will be published as a two-volume, slipcased hardcover set, printed slightly larger than the original comics, and shot from the original negatives to the comic books, ensuring the finest reproduction ever seen of the material. It will also include the rarely-seen ZAM, a one-shot mini-comic/jam spinoff of ZAP from 1974, as well as other supplementary features, interviews with the artists, and other surprises.

http://www.fantagraphics.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Fantagraphics-to-Publish-The-Complete-ZAP-Comix.html&Itemid=113

[FreakinDJ]

1. Sign me up if they republish "The Furry Freak Bros"

always my fav

[PCIntern]

2. Captain Pissgums! And the ship "The Quivering Thigh"!

Oh, sorry, that was National Lampoon...my bad.

[hifiguy]

4. You were right the first time

"Captain Pissgums and His Pervert Pirates" was indeed in Zap. "The Checkered Demon" too.

[kpete]

5. ahhhhhhhhhh

"the checkered demon"
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uo448hbZhII/S6FaWdVLpCI/AAAAAAAAABA/blas_JISAqw/S254/checkered+demon.jpg

[hifiguy]

7. I always imagined that the Checkered Demon

sounded exactly like an over the top impression of Peter Lorre.....

[Luminous Animal]

14. I can tell you exactly how the Checkered Demon sounds. He sounds just like

S. Clay Wilson (or, as we affectionately refer to him, Ass Clay Wilson). Why does the Demon sound like Clay? Because the Demon is Clay. A medium deep timbre with a bit of gruff and a Nebraska drawl.

[Armstead]

10. Bite me Crank Matey

[hifiguy]

3. Excellent news!

Somewhere in a storage locker I have all the original Zaps (in later editions) and tons of the Freak Brothers, Harold Hedd and other underground comics.

It will be nice to see that gorgeous Robert Williams and R. Crumb art printed in the highest possible quality. S. Clay Wilson's epic grossouts should be a hoot too.

[mike_c]

6. wyatt winghead and the intergalactic mindfuck express!

:woohoo:

[madrchsod]

8. you mean the pages won`t be yellowed?

well it`s to late now to sell my collection to buy the new reprints. so i`ll have to start saving up my pennies....

[Armstead]

11. If your yellowed pages aren't torn up, they're probably worth something

[Terry in Austin]

9. Furry Freak Bros.

My all-time fave. Gilbert Shelton was a long-time Austin resident, and the characters were modeled on three real-life local figures. Two of them still live here -- Fat Freddy and Phineas. Freewheelin Frank, original proprietor of Oat Willie's, passed a few years ago.

[hobbit709]

15. A friend of mine lived in their apartment.

he realized that when looking at one of their comics and thinking to himself that the apartment looked familiar. It was up off 24th St near the Drag

[alfredo]

12. Will it come with Orange Sunshine or Chocolate Mesc?

[Brother Buzz]

13. I need my Mickey Rat

Robert Armstrong was never sued by Disney. Amazing.