HOME GROWN FUNNIES, 12th PRINTING, 1971, ROBERT CRUMB, KITCHEN SINK, UNDERGROUN

Description: Home Grown Funnies, 12th Printing, January 1971, Robert Crumb, 28 pages, Kitchen Sink, Underground Comic The 12th printing has a 75-cent cover price. IT2 The impressive longevity of Home Grown Funnies (16 printings and 160,000 copies sold in 30+ years) is a testament to the alluring power of Robert Crumb's 22-page epic love story, "Whiteman Meets Bigfoot." In this classic but unusually plotted (for Crumb) tragicomedy, a middle-class family man falls in love with a female Bigfoot in remote mountain territory and forsakes everything to fulfill his destiny with her. The lead story in Home Grown Funnies is "Angelfood McDevilsfood in Backwater Blues," a three-page tale that incorporates many of the racist and sexist elements that Crumb often used as ammunition to lampoon a racist and sexist society and/or used in a fruitless attempt to exorcise the darker demons swirling in his soul. He caught plenty of hell from all corners either way. As Crumb would say, "it's just ink on paper, folks!" HISTORICAL FOOTNOTES: There are currently 16 printings of this comic book, all by Kitchen Sink Press. The first 11 printings all have 50-cent cover prices and are not easily distinguished by tells on the front cover. However, they can be distinguished by statements made or not made in the indicia on the inside front cover. The 1st printing does not indicate which printing it is in the indicia, but the next 10 printings do state their printing order. The remaining printings are distinguished by their cover prices. The 12th printing has a 75-cent cover price. The 13th printing has a $1.00 cover price. The 14th printing has a $2.00 cover price. The 15th printing has a $2.50 cover price and adds a banner at the top of the front cover stating "Over 150,000 Copies Sold!" The 16th printing has a $3.50 cover price. The 1st printing produced 10,000 copies, the 2nd printing was 20,000 copies, the 3rd through 8th printings were 10,000 copies each, the 9th through 11th printings were 5,000 copies each, the 12th printing was 10,000 copies, the 13th printing was 5,000 copies, and the number of copies produced for the 14th through 16th printings is currently unknown (I would presume 5,000 copies each). In the mid 1970s, "Whiteman Meets Bigfoot" inspired TV commercial director Boyd Jacobson to write an original screenplay for a film based on the comic. The screenplay expanded Crumb's original story and Jacobson persuaded Crumb to do a set of original drawings to illustrate new sections for the movie, which Crumb completed in 1977. Though Crumb was paid one dollar a year by Jacobson for a number of years to retain movie rights to the story, the film was never made. When Crumb finally let the rights expire, he and Terry Zwigoff crafted their own version of the screenplay, only to drop the project when the movie Harry and the Hendersons came out in 1987. Now that nearly a quarter century has passed since Harry and the Hendersons was released, I think the world is ready for a "Whiteman Meets Bigfoot" movie. COMIC CREATOR: Robert Crumb - 1-28 Aline Kominsky – 36 PLEASE NOTE: The photos of this underground comic ‘may’ have been altered or revised to conform to eBay’s rules and regulations. This comic contains simple drawings, sketches cartoon caricatures, showing the features of its subjects in a humorously exaggerated and satirical way. This item “did” follow eBay Restricted Adult items policy. An eBay agent has researched, compared, reviewed, accepted and ‘approved’ this cartoon funnies comic book to comply with new Adult Items updated Policy. 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