R. Crumb's The Yum Yum Book

Robert Crumb

$88.00

Condition

Excellent condition copies of this gem have been unearthed from our archives.

Unread.

Crumb sez:

"I just want to explain to the reader that

I drew this story when I was nineteen

years old and still a virgin. now I'm thirty

years old and the book seems somewhat

adolescent and immature to me.

I gave the book as a gift to Dana when

I first met her, as a token of my love. We

got married shortly after. It has been

hidden away all these years, along with

some early sketchbooks of mine, and

other sophomoric-romantic works done

in the throes of horny passion. But now

the time has come to review it to the world

I guess. My lawyer Albert Morse thinks

it'll sell like hotcakes and make a lot of

money. I dunno... Personally, it embar-

rasses me now, but probably a lot of

people will like it better than the stuff I

turn out currently. Others, I'm sure, will

put it down for being too cute, etc. Well,

ya can't please everybody.

Anyway, I worked very hard on this book

It took six months of earnest labor. All the

color was done with Prismacolor pen-

cils. The year was 1963. I've changed a

lot and so has my work, but this does

have a certain innocent charm. Dana

loved me for it."

R. Crumb

June, 1974

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