The Realist Cartoons

Edited By Paul Krassner and Ethan Persoff. Published by Fantagraphics. 

Hardcover, 256 pages, B&W, 1958-2001 (2016 printing)

A collection of the comics Time magazine called the Charlie Hebdo of the 1960s.

The Realist was a legendary satirical periodical that ran from 1958 to 2001 and published some of the most incendiary cartoons that ever appeared in an American magazine. The Realist Cartoons collects, for the first time, the best, the wittiest, and the most provocative drawings that appeared in its pages, including work by R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, S. Clay Wilson, Jay Lynch, Trina Robbins, Mort Gerberg, Jay Kinney, Richard Guindon, Nicole Hollander, Skip Williamson, and many others.