Don Schencker; Robert Crumb; John Thompson; Joel Beck
Berkeley: Print Mint, 1973.

One of the seminal underground comix series featuring work by R. Crumb, Joel Beck, S. Clay Wilson, Gilbert Shelton, Robert Williams, Rick Griffin, Greg Irons, Trina Robbins, Andy Martin, Franz Cilensek, John Thompson, and others. The special fifth anniversary limited edition printing published in 1973, containing the first 12 numbers (9/10 and 11/12 are double issues) on tabloid newsprint (from number 13 it switched from a tabloid to a magazine format) contained in the original issue envelope.

Grayson Perry
London: Atlas Press, 2002.

“When I was 12 or 13 I drew a series of short comic strip adventures featuring an idealised male hero. When puberty hit me these boy’s own tales became increasingly kinky, involving much cross-dressing and bondage. Sadly these reports from my young subconscious were lost in the upheavals of adolescence. Twenty years later I drew Cycle of Violence while facing up to becoming a father myself, and once again my imagination became an open wound.” (artist’s statement). Limited to 1,200 numbered copies.