According to Robert, they started studying comics more carefully, and by age 11, "We were connoisseurs". He and his brother Charles were self-admitted wimps and started drawing comics from age 7-8. Robert Crumb was born Augin Philadelphia, Philadelphia. "Without my brother Charles forcing me to draw comics, today I would be a commercial illustrator signing my work " Bob Dennis." Groth, Gary, " The Complete Crumb Comics Vol. The Comic Journal's Top 100 English-Language Comics of the Century.Waiting for Food Number 2 : More Restaurant Placemat Drawings by R.Crumb Sketchbook: Mid 1969 to End of '76 Vol. Your Vigor for Life Appalls Me: Collected Letters (1956-1972) - 1998.12: We're Livin' in the Lap O' Luxury - 1997 Carload O'Comics: An Anthology of Choice Strips and Stories : 1968 to 1976 1996.Waiting for Food: Restaurant Placemat Drawing - 1996.Natural Commited to a Mental Institution - 1995 Big Yum Yum Book: The Story of Oggie & the Beanstalk - 1995.10: Crumb Advocates Violent Overthrow - 1994 The Life & Death of Fritz the Cat - 1993.The Complete Dirty Laundry Comics - 1993.Crumb Postcard Book : Drawings from the Secret Sketchbook of the Artist! - 1993 Pioneers of Country Music: Trading Cards - 1992.Heroes of the Blues: Trading Cards - 1992.Early Jazz Greats: Trading Cards - 1992.The Complete Crumb Comics: The Death of Fritz the Cat - 1992.Crumb Comics : The Story O' My Life People.Ya Gotta Love 'Em I'm Grateful! I'm Grateful! - 1992 2: Some More Early Years of Bitter Struggle - 1991 The Complete Crumb Comics Vol 5 : Happy Hippy Comix - 1990.1: The Early Years of Bitter Struggle - 1987 The Confessions of Robert Crumb (DVD) - 1987.Texas Crude : The How-To on Talkin' Texan - 1984.These days some of his work is being republished by Fantagraphics, including a compendium of his work called The Complete Crumb Comics.īooks by or containing work by Crumb include: In 1994, Zwigoff made a movie about Robert called simply " Crumb." Some consider this a dark film as it highlights just how disfunctional a family the brothers Crumb came from. In 1993 he did the illustrations for a book called Introducing Kafka. In 1990 his work is featured prominently in New York Museum of Modern Art show, High and Low. One of their tunes is Pedal Your Blues Away.ĭuring the 80's he is profiled in People, Newsweek, and on the BBC. In 1972 he organized a jazz band called The Cheap Suit Serenaders, the band includes film director/artist Terry Zwigoff. Together they created a magazine called Wierdo. In 1974 he married his second wife, Aline Kominsky. He did the cover art for a Big Brother and the Holding Company album that Janis Joplin also sang on and was titled "Cheap Thrills". He was the creator of the cartoon symbol of an era, the strutting hippie over the slogan, " Keep On Truckin'." Natural, the grotesquely voluptuous Angelfood McSpade, the sexually repressed suburbanite Whiteman, and many others. While living in the Haight-Ashbury district in San Francisco during the hippie movement of the 1960s, he created the classic underground comix series, Zap Comix (1967), and Snatch 1968), featuring the overtly sexual escapades of Mr. He worked for a number of different publications during this period, including "Help magazine" published by Harvey Kurtzman who co-founded MAD MAGAZINE. Robert got a job with American Greeting Cards. Their status as a dysfunctional family is documented in the film " Crumb." During his teen years he drew the first versions of Fritz the Cat. He and his brothers drew comics for their own amusement. 1943- American Cartoonist, satarist and world class malcontent.īorn in Philadelphia, an entirely self taught artist.
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