![]() His wife Dana soon followed and they settled in Haight-Ashbury. He wrote in a letter in March 1963: “My job here is indescribably dismal.” He was promoted within a year to the Hi-Brow Department where he drew hundreds of cards over the next several years.Īfter using LSD for several years, Crumb left Cleveland for San Francisco when he met two guys in a bar who said they were driving west. It was a step beyond Mad.“Ĭrumb went to work for the American Greetings Corporation as a color separator. Crumb was doing stuff beyond what other writers and artists were doing. Pekar wrote: “I took a look at his stuff. Harvey Pekar, a budding comic writer, lived a couple of blocks away. In the fall of 1962, Crumb moved to Cleveland. And check out Head’s terrific website here.Crumb wrote: “We drew those homemade comics throughout childhood and adolescence, from 1952 right up until I left home in 1962 ten years solid of drawing comics with no let-up.” Glenn Head’s Chicago is available now from Fantagraphics. ![]() From Crumb’s great epic: Whiteman Meets Big Foot ( Home Grown Funnies, 1971). Game over! Being told to grow up … by a woman who has! Every guy fears this moment-and runs from it. Say all you want about this chiaroscuro, light and dark business, yeah it’s great, but … what’s mind-blowing is just the sheer voluminous mass of ass here!ġ3. It depicts the guilt and fear residing in our gated communities.ġ2. Lawn jockey’s revenge on suburbia! If this drawing was any less racist it wouldn’t work at all. Take all humanity out of the picture and what’s left for Crumb? This beautifully drawn tree!ġ1. He’s really saying, “Well, it’s no picnic for me either. And it is hard work … even for Crumb! I love Crumb the person as well as the artist for this drawing. A copy of this drawing should be on every cartoonist’s drawing table. And of course the fact that it’s his daughter there’s nothing sensual here, but there’s tenderness in Sophie’s eyes and mouth, a softness expressed for her Dad.ĩ. Crumb shows that this too is a human being.Ĩ. Also the choice in drawing this man who is so far beyond the pale of human sympathy. I really like what Crumb captures here-the deadness of the eyes and spirit, the slackness of his character. I would love to see Robert do a feature-length strip about his father (pictured here)!ħ. One of Crumb’s most powerfully misanthropic drawings. ![]() She seems disconnected from reality but somehow not despairing.Ħ. I love the feeling of loss and melancholy about this mental patient Crumb drew. Crumb self-portrait because it seems so accurate, both slightly pained-looking and contemptuous.Ĥ. Sometimes it seems that people have trouble with Crumb because he captures human sexuality as it really is! Or feels like….ģ. … Are they worth it? The little man wonders!Ģ. All of these wires, cables, fuse boxes, etc., that make up our consciousness. Of course, the best way to honor Robert’s work on this, his 72nd birthday, is by looking at it. In my own memoir I try and show this when meeting Robert when I was 19. Any artist looking to do his best, most truthful work must revere him. It’s almost impossible to overstate the influence of Robert Crumb’s work on other cartoonists. Head knows of which he speaks: The artist’s meeting with Crumb is a turning point in Chicago and in his own career. Instead, we have Eisner-nominated cartoonist Glenn Head, whose autobiographical Chicago is gonna be one of the big books of the fall, here to pick his favorite Crumb sketches. Hate to point this out, but this is NSFW. UPDATED 8/30/19: Robert Crumb is turning 76 and we re-present this retrospective by writer/artist Glenn Head of the graphic novel Chicago. Glenn Head, whose Chicago is out from Fantagraphics, pays homage to the master of underground comix.
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