#01 Eggs Ackley Among the Vulture Demonesses
#01 Eggs Ackley Among the Vulture Demonesses
Rip-Off Press June 1969
Three months later, Rip Off Press published Big Ass Comics #1, in which Crumb returned to pure objectification of women and featured raw sexual imagery. Big Ass #1 engendered a flood of new criticism about Crumb’s sexism and violence against women. The criticism merely antagonized Crumb, as evidenced in Big Ass Comics #2, where Crumb delivers the one-page free-speech rant, “A Word To You Feminist Women.” In the strip, Crumb welcomes female readers into his home to let them know, “I’m all for women’s lib, believe it or not!” But then he defends his right to draw whatever the hell he wants to draw, declares he is an artist and not a politician, and that he’d be a liar if he tried to appease anyone else’s ideology. In one page, Crumb deftly summarizes a key rationale for all those who defend his right to unleash whatever demons he wants to portray with ink on paper.
1st Printing. Story Art and Cover by Robert Crumb. Feature story is Eggs Ackley Among the Vulture Demonesses, plus Dale Steinberger: The Jewish Cowgirl, All Meat Comics, Mrs. Quiver, Artsy Fartsy. 7-in. x 10-in., 24 pages, B&W. MATURE READERS. NOTE: The 1st printing is easily identified; it is the only printing with R.Crumbs signature in a White box in the lower right corner of the front cover, all subsequent printings have Crumb’s signature in a red box. PAGES ARE OUT OF ORDER Cover price $0.50.
#01 Eggs Ackley Among the Vulture Demonesses
