The twelfth volume spotlights Crumb's first collaborations with writerHarvey Pekar, which appeared in Pekar's magazine American Splendor (alsothe name of Pekar's biopic). This collection also includes a skepticalreport-in-comics on an aerospace symposium, which comes off like a forerunner ofMichael Moore's cocky documentary films), an evocative period piece featuring1930s jazz musicians, and other pieces.