The Complete Crumb Comics, Vol. 15: Featuring Mode O’day and Her Pals

“Mode O’Day and Her Pals” includes all of Crumb’s contributions to Weirdo #9-15, his first experiments with brush, the first Mode O’Day stories, the first collaboration with Bukowski, “Psychopathia Sexualis” and more! The definitive, comprehensive series reprinting Crumb’s published career enters the mid-1980s with this 15th volume, a period that many critics consider to be the richest of Crumb’s career. Anchored by Crumb’s contributions to the seminal anthology Weirdo , created and edited by Crumb, this volume includes the first several appearances of classic Crumb character Mode O’ Day, the networking fashion plate that serves as a foil for some of Crumb’s most biting satire about America’s cultural “elite.” Other Weirdo highlights include Crumb’s fascinating adaptation of Dr. R. Von Krafft-Ebing’s “Psychopathia Sexualis,” and “Where Has it Gone, all the Beautiful Music of Our Grandparents?”, two stories often-cited as being amongst Crumb’s very best work.

Also included are Crumb’s first collaborations with the late writer Charles Bukowski, including the chapbook “Bring Me Your Love,” as well as several collaborations with Harvey Pekar from his autobiographical series American Splendor . The book is rounded out with a color section that includes rare album art for various jazz and blues greats, as well reproductions of his various comic book covers from this period. Crumb is the most revealing of all artists, and The Complete Crumb Comics leaves no stone unturned. Featuring a lengthy introduction by Peter Bagge. 16 pages of color; black-and-white comics throughout