Home Grown Funnies Explained

Schedule:Sixteen printings
Publisher:Kitchen Sink Press
1Shot:Y
Writers:Robert Crumb
Artists:Robert Crumb
Date:January 1971
Tpb:The Complete Crumb Comics #8: The Death of Fritz the Cat
Isbn:1-56097-076-6

Home Grown Funnies is a single-issue underground comic book written and illustrated by Robert Crumb. Containing stories with staple Crumb characters Whiteman, the Snoid, and Angelfood McSpade, Home Grown Funnies went through sixteen printings by Kitchen Sink Press, selling at least 160,000 copies, and has been referred to as one of Crumb's longest-lived comics.[1]

Publication history

The comic was originally published in January 1971, and underwent fifteen consecutive printings.

Home Grown Funnies Print Runs!Printing(s)!Issues
1st10,000
2nd20,000
3rd–8th10,000
9th–11th5,000
12th10,000
13th5,000
14th–16thest. 5,000

Contents

Stories in Home Grown Funnies[2] !Story!Character!Writer/Artist
"Maryjane"MaryjaneRobert Crumb
"Backwater Blues"Angelfood McSpade (billed as Angelfood McDevilsfood)"
"Whiteman Meets Bigfoot"Whiteman"
"The Desperate Character Writhes Again!"R. Crumb"

Reception

M. Thomas Fox of underground comix database Comixjoint gave Home Grown Funnies a 10/10 score, rating the writing as "brilliant" and the illustration as "exceptional". Fox added that "[t]he impressive longevity of Home Grown Funnies (16 printings and 160,000 copies sold in 30+ years) is a testament to the alluring power of Robert Crumb's 22-page epic love story, 'Whiteman Meets Bigfoot'. In this classic but unusually plotted (for Crumb) tragicomedy, a middle-class family man falls in love with a female Bigfoot in remote mountain territory and forsakes everything to fulfill his destiny with her".

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Home Grown Funnies 1st Printing at Comixjoint.com. comixjoint.com. 2019-08-30.
  2. Web site: GCD :: Issue :: Home Grown Funnies #1. www.comics.org. 2019-08-30.