Robert Crumb Stories

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Thank you OP. Man, Crumb's life is quite the Great American Graphic Novel.

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Thank you for reading pal, more people need to know about him, because most people know him only because of Fritz the cat.

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>that second to last panel

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

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The lighting on Crumb reminds me of Charles Burns

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autobiographical is the least imaginative form of creative output.

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Thanks OP, this was a pretty great storytime!

Just imagine if Crumb came of age today, in the era of ubiquitous internet access and online pornography.

Do you think he would browse Cred Forums?

Crumb invented that old fashioned meme catchphrase in just one page, even the Simpsons referenced it.

he would probably be in jail desu

This. How he got away with most of the shit he did without getting thrown in the slammer (or an asylum) is amazing.

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Well i guess i can't make this thread without Fritz inside him.

Does anybody have the reaction pic about terrible plagues?

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Ok, why?

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Man, maybe I should've experimented with substances when I was young... And stuck with drawing...

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Crumb hated Ralph Bakshi's movie adaptation, that's why he killed his own character.

Fuck, don't that feel familiar.

Fuck, that feels even MORE familiar.

I find it interesting just how many hardcore independent artists usually tell a story of their lives in a way.
Like MAUS was basically his father's story with his story cut into it.
That recent story Pencilhead.
Hell the movie Eraserhead if we're allowed to talk about movies too.
Bakshi kinda too.

That final panel is just a Cred Forums banner waiting to happen.

He fucked all those subhumans bastards, his descendants are probably the inventors of moneys or some shit like that, BASED mutating caveman.

I really feel for Crumb here.

I kinda want to die now.

Crumb is my favorite degenerate cartoonist.

I guess it makes sense. If they're going to put that much work into an unconventional story, it follows that they'd channel something close-to-home.
For a lot of people, it's the direct personal experiences that are really burning to be turned into a story.

Thanks for this, OP. This classic underground style of comics is really evocative & compelling for me.

Lately, I've really wanted to learn more about them. Can anyone recommend some good books about this era of gritty underground comics & the indie cartoonists of the time?
There's so much material out there about Crumb, but I'd love to learn more about his lesser-known contemporaries too.

The Comics Journal in general.

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Did you read his section in Comic History of Comics?
>hates how corporate comics are
>I'll make my own comix, with weed and hookers!
>shit, I'm becoming popular
>why am i popular?
>I hate them, I hate them all!
>pisses off fans
>not popular anymore
>just as planned

>last panel
Glad to see some things haven't changed at all.

Thanks for the read, OP.

In his early years he was some kind of hipster douchebag but changed a lot along the decades, his best stories are actually after the sixties.

Classic. Good thread OP.
He didn't invent it, it was an old Harlem dance craze from the 1920's, jazz records were made about it and stuff. So with Crumb being an obsessive record collector....you can fill in the rest. You know Amazon used it in the early 2000's as their "404" image? Not the cartoon, a little simple computer icon of the pose and it said "can't find so-and-so, so keep on truckin'". Crumb sued and won.

The Patrick Rosenkranz S.Clay Wilson book are fucking gold, he also did a great UG comics history for Fanta. Just google him with "underground comics". I have a complete run of Weirdo, also got The Weirdo Years H/C to have it all in a nice volume, I wish someone would collect the great UG anthology Arcade. There was some fabulous stuff in that. Edited by Spiegleman and Bill Griffiths. Have five issues, there were only seven made, they're getting pretty rare so I don't like taking them out too much.

My UG cartoonist obsession is Robert Armstrong, creator of Mickey rat and band member of Crumb's Cheap Suit Serenaders. I love his style! He had a few pieces in Weirdo and Arcade and was even in Marvels Comix Book. Highly recommend his work. He's a nice bloke, too, I'm FB friends with him, he told me some great stories about Ward Kimball, one of Disney's nine Old Men who he played music with and visited with Crumb in their youth. He was in his 70's by this time but was hip to Crumb and Armstrong's work and underground comics generally. And he loved trains. Lots and lots of trains....

>underground comix
>on Cred Forums

Blessed be.

Though I admit Crumb has never been my cup of tea, he reminds me of my car stereo: if you play anything other than music from the 40s or earlier, it produces this obnoxious buzzing whine (I wish I was making this shit up, I've tested it multiple times and for some reason newer music is hated by my stereo).

I prefer Spiegelman, personally. He's almost as obnoxious as Crumb but his Peanuts comics are always good for a laugh.

I like Spiegelman but, Jesus, he has the most ugly fucking line I've ever seen! His UG stuff was pretty craft-conscious and nice looking but after Maus it just got rougher than a Paddy's arse. Some of the pages in Shadow of No Towers are hideously fuckin' ugly, not in a Panter-ish deliberate ugliness but a deficit of craft type of ugliness. Still, he's made some truly great work.

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>"Peanuts" comics
>I prefer Chris Ware, his Peanuts comics are always good for a laugh
>I prefer Ivan Brunetti, his Peanuts comics are always good for a laugh
>I prefer Joe Matt, his Peanuts comics are always good for a laugh etc etc

More Crumb please.

why? he's acting like a manchild here.

>you called me out
>WAAAAHHHHH

he literally threw a temper tantrum. Who cares if he's being goaded, that just makes it all the more pathetic he let it happen

I think that's the point Crumb made.
The man is extremely self-deprecating.
He's a creep, a degenerate and a "loser" and he knows it.
He doesn't really takes sides in his autobiographical works, except his opposition's.

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>smug little snot-nose brat...
>...i hope she likes me
Cred Forums in a nutshell

>((((((underground))))))

Crumb isn't jewish, memester.

BOY

That Fritz the Cat movie... Cool flick, wasn't it, huh?

Oh god.

And now another adventure of Fritz the Cat.

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Rare Crumb from Yell #3 (September 1966).

Yell was one of several cheap MAD rip-offs floating around at the time and it only lasted three issues.

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I meant his actual, "talking about Peanuts" comics ya fuckin' mook.

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Living the dream

Yeah, not sure if you actually got the "joke" there (all those cartoonists have done "Peanuts comics" by your criteria, i.e a few pages at the most). I was trying to make the funny which only le pretentious hipsters would know what I was talking about.

It's not though. As legendarily great as he is, he doesn't have that one, definitive, long form work that you can point to and say: "this is his masterwork". Sure he has a lot of great short pieces in his bibliography and his Bible adaptation certainly doesn't count. Although I feel the day is approaching where we MAY get the Greta American Graphic Novel from him before he dies or loses his facility.

Thanks OP. Love me some Crumb.

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