Auction Date:2010 Nov 10 @ 19:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Early and original complete comic strip, signed “R. Crumb,” on both sides of a 6.75 x 8.5 off-white lightly lined sheet, titled “A Sad Comic Strip,” dated St. Patrick’s Day 1962, starring Little Billie Bean. All twelve “panels” feature Billy lying flat on his back, with thought balloons above each sketch. His thoughts read:
“I am completely confused. I utterly don’t know what to do.”
“Should I lay here or should I get up?”
“There surely isn’t any sense in getting up, since I have no purpose, no goal, no reason for doing anything.”
“My life is without meaning. All is chaos and confusion. I might as well lay here till I rot.”
“What’s the use in getting up and trying to do anything? It’s all so futile. Why struggle? Why fight for survival? It’s all for nothing.”
“Maybe it wouldn’t be for nothing if there was something to believe in. Something of joy and love.”
“But there isn’t. Not for me, anyway. For me there is nothing. I’ve tried in vain, struggled and strived for years and years to get love, and peace, and understanding.”
“All I ever got for all the effort was frustration, heart-ache, despair, confusion. All my dreams have been shattered. Life has let me down.”
“So why go on? Why go on feeling frustrated and lonely and depressed. I must come to accept my lot.”
“I must accept defeat. I must give myself up to emptiness, blankness. A life without caring, without striving. A life without life. A state of vegetation.”
“So I’ll lay here till my heart stops beating and life goes out of me. Till death and oblivion overtake me.”
In fine condition, with scattered light toning and soiling. An early, and most likely unpublished example.
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