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Eat It, by Dana Crumb and Shery Cohen with illustrations by Robert Crumb, is probably the second cookbook I’ve ever owned. When I purchased it last week I was surprised by the number of drawings by Crumb it contained. One for every recipe—about 2-3 recipes a page.

The middle of the book even contains a funny “Kitchen Kut-Outs!” section. It’s four pages of psychedelic kitchen objects that look WAY too happy and alive to eat with.

I decided to make the Robert Crumb’s Favorite Macaroni Casserole. It looked the easiest and actually read like it would taste pretty good. Another recipe that sounded interesting:

Five Joint Soup
Step five of this recipe: … get away from the stove, sit down, roll one, have some tea, look out the window—relax.

That’s how cookin’ was done in the 1970’s.

Here’s how it looked shortly before I dug in. And you know what? It wasn’t half bad. The recipe instructed me to make enough for a small army, so I’ll be eating this Cassarole all summer.

All said, this is a pretty fun cookbook for a cartoonist to have. I stumbled across my copy in a used book store. However, even if you aren’t much of a cook (like myself) you can appreciate Eat It for all the really fantastic Robert Crumb artwork.

This is a cover to a new book I plan to have ready for Microcon next week.

What cartoonist doesn’t doodle on his placemat while sitting in restaurants?

Update:

The final tally for the fistacuffs fight:

82,737 votes for Die-ities

4 votes for myself and Mr. Sunshine

I haven’t endured such a soul crushing defeat since I lost the 6th grade student body presidency to Nikki Mason. I still remember the speeches that I gave. I campained for a longer lunch period, set aside reading time, and a new pencil sharpener. That Nikki Mason simply asked for your vote.

But Nikki Mason had many admirers. And I was just a kid with a mullet.

Check out the continuing mayham HERE.

Remember the daily journal comic that I was going to keep? Well, the book was about 24 pages. I tried to think, “Just fill these 24 pages. That’s easy. No problem.”
Here are a selection of some of the not-too-terrible strips.

Starting out it was kind of fun. I’d do one a day over my lunch break.

However, I started to lose interest in always writing about myself.
(I’m as surprised as you are.)

Plus, I kept misspelling words and never had a dictionary with me at lunch.

Here Sarah tried to help out by filling in for me.

Eventually, after about 19 comics, I dropped the comic journal all together and filled the rest of the book with drawings. And that was it.

Go to Fisticuffs and check out the new fight. This time it’s a tag-team. Basically I did a drawing and synthetic sunshine did a drawing and now our drawings will have an imaginary fight with other drawings.

We have a pretty difficult (i.e. IMPOSSIBLE) first round. So go check it out before we’re easily eliminated.