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...
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,"...
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...
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) | 10/23/2009
We’ve mentioned most of these events before, but in case you’ve gotten caught up with the hustle, bustle and possible flash-flooding of the week, don’t forget: * Robert Crumb will make a rare stateside public appearance to talk about his illustrated version of THE BOOK OF GENESIS, which he will discuss with fellow cartoonist Francoise Mouly [...]
The First Post (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
The counterculture American cartoonist Robert Crumb has taken on arguably his most controverisal work yet, by producing an illustrated version of the Book of Genesis. Crumb,…
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
The US cartoonist has completed his long-awaited illustrated version of the first 50 chapters of the Bible. Take a look
Ancient Hebrew Poetry (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
The loathing Crumb inspires in a few, the accolades he receives from others, cast shadows and light on his most recent work, introduced here, here, and here. Crumb is a satirist. Satirists offend. Satirists offend by exaggerating truth. Remember what...
Church Times Blog (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Cartoonist Robert Crumb has illustrated the book of Genesis and the book of his drawings is released today in the US. Bishop of Croydon, Nick Baines is generally impressed, saying that "the text of Genesis has been stuck to faithfully and taken seriously" ( The Genesis of a Crumb ). The Times talked to Nick Baines among others. See Robert Crumb does the Bible . From a...
Spanish Teaching (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
The Age Illustrator R. Crumb is drawn to God with his latest projectUSA TodayBehold! Robert Crumb has found God, or at least a hint of what he looks like. "It was hard to draw God," the reclusive cartoonist says about his latest project, which begins at the Beginning, with Creation itself. …Comic Arts: R. Crumb Inks [...]
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