Robert Crumb Returns For First New Comic In 23 Years

Robert Crumb, at age 81, isn’t just alive and well, he’s also still hard at work creating comics. And Fantagraphics is publishing his first new work in 23 years in the new collection Tales from Paranoia.

R. Crumb — if you don’t know — is basically the father of alternative comics, or one of them, and was the man behind 1967’s seminal ZAP. Now, decades later, he’s still writing and still drawing… This time taking on everything from the internet and deep state careerists, to the very idea of paranoia itself.

Per PR from Fantagraphics, the book mixes, “memoir, essay, polemic, neurosis, and conspiracy across 12 short comics—including the final Dirty Laundry story, drawn by Crumb from a script written with Aline Kominsky-Crumb before her death in 2022.”

Tales of Paranoia will hit stores in November from Fantagraphics, helping kick off the publisher’s 50th anniversary celebration. Get a look at the book’s cover and two interior pages below:

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