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The Captain is Out to Lunch and The Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship: Deluxe Lettered Version with Signed Robert Crumb Print
The Captain is Out to Lunch and The Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship: Deluxe Lettered Version with Signed Robert Crumb Print
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Published in 1998 by Black Sparrow Press, this is a First Edition Hardcover copy of The Captain is Out to Lunch and The Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship.
This is 1/26 Lettered Copies, this being letter Z.
This edition includes a signed serigraph of Charles Bukowski by Robert Crumb.
This copy is in Fine condition and came from estate of Red Stodolsky, owner of Baroque Book Store and a close friend of Charles Bukowski.
The Captain is Out to Lunch and The Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship was the final collaboration between Charles Bukowski and Robert Crumb
The content for the book comes from a series of Bukowski journal entries that appeared in ONTHEBUS in the early 1990s. The magazine was published by Bukowski’s long-time friend Jack Grapes. Grapes encouraged Bukowski to take up writing journals as a way to cope with his declining health.
Bukowski first met Crumb in 1972 at a party hosted by Liza Williams, who was Bukowski’s girlfriend at the time. Bukowski and Crumb appeared in several magazines and weeklies together prior to them meeting, so he was familiar with Crumb’s work.
"You know, your stuff is good, kid,” Bukowski told him at the party. “It's the real thing. Just keep away from the cocktail parties.”
Three years later their first collaboration was published in Arcade 3. Published by Art Spiegelman and Bill Griffith, Arcade was a last-ditch attempt to keep the underground comix movement relevant by creating an adult-focused magazine that appealed to the mainstream. Issues were published from 1975 to 1976 and featured well-known artists such as Crumb, Kim Deitch, Spain Rodriguez, and S. Clay Wilson. For content, they tapped writers such as Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, Paul Krassner and J. Hoberman.
Arcade 3 featured a Crumb front cover of a bohemian-looking character walking through a city landscape on a windy fall day with a balloon caption reading, “This, to me, is sheer poetry!!” Inside, Crumb illustrated the Bukowski short story, “Bop Bop Against That Curtain”, a humorous coming of age story where a young Bukowski spends his afternoon with friends who eventually end up at a cheap burlesque theater.
Bukowski and Crumb’s next two projects were both published by Black Sparrow Press. Bring Me Your Love (1983) was about a man visiting his wife in an insane asylum and There's No Business (1984) featured an aging MC who just doesn’t have it anymore. Both were given the usual Black Sparrow treatment with hardcover deluxe editions.
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