Home Grown Funnies


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.

Publication history

The comic was originally published in January 1971, and underwent fifteen consecutive printings.
PrintingIssues
1st10,000
2nd20,000
3rd–8th10,000
9th–11th5,000
12th10,000
13th5,000
14th–16thest. 5,000

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 "he impressive longevity of Home Grown Funnies 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 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".