A Short Talk With Ahbe (Eden Ahbez) Nature Boy
secret inspiration for underground cartoonist Robert Crumb’s legendary “Mr. Natural”…Nature Boy was a true original. … Ahbe Eden Abez Anna Zoma Mr …
The Works of R. Crumb
Just Keep on Truckin'…
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat – Editorial Reviews
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That infamous cat and his twisted life are back! Staying within the tradition set by the audacious and racy Fritz the Cat, director-co-writer Robert Taylor takes Robert Crumb’s way-cool felinecharacter from the boundary-pushing ’60s to the harsh realities of Vietnam, racial riots and Watergate of the ’70s in a sequel ripe with “pure silliness [and a] hip story-telling style” (Variety)! Fritz has got the post-college blues he’s married to a mouthy wife who beats him constantly, and he’s out of work and on unemployment! To escape his sad, nagging reality, Fritz launches himself into a psychedelic haze with a mind-blowing catnip that takes him to his eight other lives. There, he lives out fantasies as an out-of-this world astronaut, an aide to President Kissinger and worse…an orderly to Hitler! But as his star-crossed hallucinations put him on a collision course with reality, Fritz becomes a casualty just waiting to happen!
Tags: psychedelic haze, robert crumb, college blues, Fritz The Cat, racial riotsThe Comics Journal Library: R. Crumb
The Comics Journal Library: R. Crumb
Editorial Reviews About The Comics Journal Library: R. Crumb
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A book of interviews with the most elusive of cartoonists and father of underground comics.
Few cartoonists have affected our world the way Robert Crumb has. From busting cultural and sexual taboos for artists everywhere with his pioneering underground comix to his never-ending drive to improve his art, he has rightly drawn comparisons to Brueghel by Time magazine’s Robert Hughes.
Collecting four long out-of-print interviews from the Utne Independent Press Award-winning Comics Journal’s archive in a oversized, art-book format, this third volume in The Comics Journal Library provides an absorbing oral history of comics in the latter half of the 20th century from the point of view of an artist who single-handedly shaped it to great extent. As the acknowledged father of underground comix, virtually every comic that has been drawn over the last 30 years and aspires to anything beyond puerile kiddie entertainment owes a debt to his groundbreaking efforts.
These are the finest, longest, and most comprehensive interviews ever conducted with the man—if you thought the Crumb film was intimate, than this collection, spanning his life and career, covering his peers and family, his views on sex, politics, art, racism and culture, his flirtations with success on America’s terms and his later rejections of those terms, and his view of the world around him will surely impress. The book also boasts of a handful of probing essays on Crumb’s oeuvre by the Journal’s sharpest critics and a stunning color gallery of the artist’s art and ephemera.
Tags: comics journal, sexual taboos, robert crumb, underground comix, R. CrumbWaiting for Food: Restaurant Placemat Drawings – Signed
Waiting for Food: Restaurant Placemat Drawings – Signed
Waiting for Food: Restaurant Placemat Drawings – Signed – Editorial Reviews
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WAITING FOR FOOD, Volume 1: Limited S&N edition of 250 by ROBERT CRUMB. This signed & numbered edition includes a special bookplate signed and numbered by Crumb. This is the first of several volumes reproducing the famous French restaurant place mats on which Crumb drew while literally Waiting for Food. The original illustrated place mats (especially the ones with wine and gravy stains) routinely sell in galleries for around $5,000 and more each. This 1995 Kitchen Sink Press first printing is the only one of the Waiting for Food series (by several publishers) to sport a dust jacket and this is also the ONLY signed edition. The cover features daughter Sophie Crumb and also eating spaghetti on the bookplate is Crumb s close friend Pete Poplaski (see also Sketchbook Adventures of Peter Poplaski ). The drawings inside often portray his wife Aline Kominsky-Crumb, self-portraits, numerous café customers and the expected Crumb fantasy elements. Limited to just 250 signed and numbered copies, published in 1995, this is the last of the publisher s private stash set aside over a decade ago!
Tags: robert crumb, gravy stains, kitchen sink press, daughter sophie, sophie crumb