Sandbox World (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Crumb seems to be doing no wrong as of late. The cartoonist is the elder representative of cartoonists of the world. His recent book, The Book of Genesis, Crumb seems to have landed on the right foot literally with his recent explosion of success. Now he has shoes bases on his first creation Fritz [...]
Drawn! (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Taiwan-born artist Flora Chang studied graphic design in San Francisco before moving to Kansas City to begin work as a greeting card artist for Hallmark. A lot of famous doodlers got their start designing greeting cards (Robert Crumb and Tom Wilson come to mind), and I’ll bet my wooden teeth that Flora Chang is also [...]
Slog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
I've written about this before , but it's getting very close now: The 33rd issue of McSweeney's is going to take the form of a Sunday newspaper titled The San Francisco Panorama : It'll have news (actual news, tied to the day it comes out) and sports and arts coverage, and comics (sixteen pages of glorious, full-color comics, from Chris Ware and Dan Clowes and Art Spiegelman and many others besides)...
Technoccult (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Underground comic artist Robert Crumb has recently joined the ranks of the perennial heretics known as the Gnostics. According to an Agence France-Presse report, Crumb admitted he was a Gnostic during a press conference for the international launch of ‘The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb’. This announcement, along with his new [...] Related posts: The Confessions Of Robert Crumb...
THE BEAT (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
R. Crumb’s appearance at Virginia Commonwealth University last week has led to a campus controversy, with his comments on rape and misogyny igniting complaints from students and statements from officials: Timothy Patterson, a Richmond College senior, cited a quote from Crumb’s speech in his response to The Collegian: “Every woman has a rape fantasy. Every man [...]
Emdashes (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
_Pollux writes_: Last night I had the opportunity to attend "An Evening with Robert Crumb" at UCLA's Royce Hall, in which the renowned cartoonist sat down for a discussion with Françoise Mouly, art editor of _The New Yorker_. It was a rare public appearance. Crumb joked that he would need recovery time at an Austrian health spa after the night was over. "I'm never doing it again,"...
THE BEAT (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
When R. Crumb does a book tour, it’s a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Thus, his appearance Tuesday with Francoise Mouly in Richmond, VA has gotten lots of online coverage. Here’s Harry Kollatz Jr. at Richmond.com. Last night, R. Crumb entered with a pratfall that seemed to surprise the University of Richmond’s director of museums, Richard Waller. Waving and [...]
Comics Worth Reading (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
by Ben Towle Comics Worth Reading is happy to feature a two-part guest column by the talented Ben Towle, author of Midnight Sun and Farewell, Georgia. Part two will run shortly, as will additional coverage of this event by Ed Sizemore. If you’re a cartoonist and you hear that Robert Crumb will be making a rare stateside [...]
THE BEAT (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Robert Crumb continues his short tour of the states to talk about his adaptation of GENESIS with an appearance at UCLA tonight, where he’ll be joined by Françoise Mouly. Tickets are $60, unless you’re a UCLA student, in which case they’re a bargain at $18. UCLA’s great Hammer Museum also just opened an exhibition called “The [...]
3:AM Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
The illustrated Bible stories you used to go through in RE were bland and tepid, with (out of necessity) much of the content excised. Crumb's version leaves nothing out, and his depictions of the human form are so realistic that you can practically smell his characters. Crumb's Genesis gives you an aura of what it would be like to live in biblical times. The stench of cattle, of old clothes in desert...
LAist (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
In conjunction with “The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis,”, which opened at the Hammer Museum last Friday, UCLA Live this Thursday is hosting a rare appearance of the famous cult cartoonist in a conversation with Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker's Art Editor. A little about Crumb, via UCLA Live: In the late ’60s, R. Crumb’s psychedelic comics—including...
all kinds of stuff (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
It's hard to imagine 2 cartoonists with such different styles as Vincent Waller and I - and that's one reason why I like working with him.Vincent draws much better than me on a technical level, and his influences are probably a somewhat different group than mine. I suspect he's a big Robert Crumb fan- I'll let him tell you who inspired him. But his style is totally unique to him and he gave
THE BEAT (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
W Magazine, of all places, rounds up a selection of sketches, illustrations and ephemera by R. Crumb to showcase “Varieties of Women” from angry goddesses, to asylum inmates to long lost high school Amazon crushes. Via Robot 6
Effect Measure (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
R. Crumb has an illustrated version of the Book of Genesis out in graphic novel format. It's gotten rave reviews from both the skeptic and non-skeptic sides of the house. Consider this, from Greta Christina at Alternet: Crumb's Genesis emphasizes biblical accuracy -- he's a non-believer, but he has a deep respect for the book's historical and cultural importance. So he created this graphic novel as...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
In his serious graphic rendering of the Bible’s first book, R. Crumb resists the temptation to exaggerate the text’s most strange or sordid aspects.
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