On sale date: September 1, 2026
The most historically and aesthetically important comics series ever published.
There scarcely was an underground comics world before Robert Crumb’s classic solo first issue of Zap in 1968. By Zap #2, he had begun assembling a Seven Samurai of the best, the fiercest, and the most stylistically diversified cartoonists to come out of the countercultural kiln. All of them were extremists of one sort or another, from biker-gang member Spain Rodriguez to Christian surfer Rick Griffin, but somehow, they produced a decades-long collaboration: a mind-blowing anthology of abstract hallucination, throat-slashing social satire, and shocking sexual excess that made possible the ongoing wave of alternative cartoonists like Daniel Clowes, Chris Ware, and Charles Burns.
The Complete Zap Comix collects every issue of Zap — every cover and every story — in a three-volume slipcased softcover set. They’re all here — from Zap #0, a solo Crumb issue, through Zap #16, the final issue with work by R. Crumb, Victor Moscoso, S. Clay Wilson, Spain Rodriguez, Gilbert Shelton, Paul Mavrides, Rick Griffin, and Robert Williams.
Praise
"When Crumb did the first Zap, it just hit the whole underground comics world like a hurricane." — Spain Rodriguez
"Zap epitomised the seismic changes that were happening within American culture as much as any album, novel or film of that era… Zap brought together a new wave of miscreant cartoonists who would define the psychedelic art of the era and later create great works beyond this one comic. Still as essential a part of any alternatively minded adolescent's formative years as the discovery of Jimi Hendrix, Easy Rider or that first tentative tug on a joint..." — The Guardian
Specs
- Pages
- 868
- Format
- Paperback / Softback
- Color
- Black-and-white with some color
- Dimensions
- 10" × 13.4"
- ISBN-13
- 9798875002540