Funny Aminals
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| Funny Aminals | |
|---|---|
 The cover of Funny Aminals, art by Robert Crumb. | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Apex Novelties |
| Format | One-shot |
| Genre | |
| No. of issues | 1 |
| Creative team | |
| Written by | Robert Crumb Justin Green Art Spiegelman Shary Flenniken Jay Lynch Michael McMillan Bill Griffith |
| Artist(s) | Robert Crumb Justin Green Art Spiegelman Shary Flenniken Jay Lynch Michael McMillan Bill Griffith |
Funny Aminals is a 1972 single-issue anthology underground comic book created by Robert Crumb and a collection of other artists. The work is notable for containing the first published version of Art Spiegelman's Maus, though the version that ran in Funny Aminals was aesthetically and thematically different from the series Spiegelman would publish in Raw Magazine and as a standalone book.
Apex Novelties published the book in July 1972, and it had one print run of an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 copies.[1] The book was initially formulated by Terry Zwigoff after a scarring visit to a slaughterhouse as an anti-animal cruelty book, but the submitted stories departed from that narrative line. Zwigoff later relinquished all editorial control over the comic.[1]