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Slog (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
This morning it was S&M, the son of Sir Oswald Mosley, and a tabloid . This afternoon, it's anti-Semitism and R. Crumb. Two British holocaust deniers are seeking political asylum in the U.S. after being convicted of publishing racially hateful material online. Simon Sheppard and Stephen Whittle skipped bail, flew to Los Angeles, and threw themselves at the mercy of immigration officials, beyond the...
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Little Hokum Rag (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Image of the Memphis Jug Band from R. Crumb's "Heroes of the Blues" trading cards. LINK This Hokum Scorchers' song is a version of "What's the Matter"originally done by the Memphis Jug Band in 1929. Lou Reimuller is playing the National guitar, kazoo and vocals and I am on the washboard, kazoo and vocals. We recorded this in 1990 for our first Hokum Scorcher's album. Follow the link and scroll down...
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PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Robert Crumb’s raggle taggle inheritors prove that the accordion -- and the saw, and the xylophone, and the theremin... -- is their oyster.
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Journal (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
I bought a few nibs and holders at Pearl in Atlanta and inherited a few more from harryowen, so I've been doing a litle bit of old-fashioned drawing. This here is my "R. Crumb" pen. I just seem to draw more like him with one of these. Also found a great book store down there with plenty of stuff by Crumb, Spiegelman, Panter, Chris Ware, etc. Spent way too much money there. Actually these days I most...
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Brand Noise (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
John Heneghan and Eden Brower of NY’s East River String Band are reviving rural blues. “Before radio took over in the mid-1930s, music was really interesting — people weren’t hearing each other. Now, you can hear the most popular thing...
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Connecticut Art Scene (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
Real Art Ways 56 Arbor St., Hartford, (860) 232-1006 Sam Gibbons Through June 15, 2008. Sam Gibbons ' symmetrical acrylic paintings are a mutant marriage of Rorschach ink blots and R. Crumb underground comix graphics, with a healthy dash of Looney Tunes thrown in for good measure. In the late 1960's and early 70's there was an underground comic book series called Tales of Sex and Death . This imagery...
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Daily Dreamtime (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Coop's "Smoking Devil" painting Coop has a terrific blog post about his latest painting, which is based on a smoking devil he created for a cigarette lighter company in 1993. The story of how Coop's illustration spread across the planet reminds me of the story of Robert Crumb's Keep on Truckin' illustration. He quickly gained a life of his own. Lots of cars, trucks and skateboards, tool boxes, laptops,...
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Easy Bake Coven (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
R. Crumb Update Robert is planning on coming to America this summer to attend a family reunion in the Midwest. While in the Midwest, he'll sign a couple of new editions we're now printing. He's been working diligently on the Genesis project and is now on page 167—rounding the bend and coming down the final stretch. In September 2004 , I posted about this same Genesis project and here we are 4 years...
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Diddy Wah (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
mp3: Dock Boggs - Sugar Baby mp3: Frank Stokes - I Got Mine mp3: Memphis Jug Band - On The Road Again mp3: Parham–Pickett Apollo Syncopaters - Mojo Strut mp3: Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra - Kater Street Rag I was recently gifted a book of the american cartoonist Robert Crumb. It packages together the Heros of Blues, Early Jazz Greats, and Pioneers of Country trading card sets that he created...
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The Zen Of Steve (Free subscription) | 05/24/2008
This feature about Philip Dick's "Valis" experience was...
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Raw Story (Free subscription) | 05/17/2008
Journalista: The Comics Journal Weblog is reporting that Will Elder, the famed illustrator and one of the founders of Mad Magazine, has died at 86. Elder was considered a major influence on artists like Robert Crumb and Daniel Clowes...
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Scientific American (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
It's the kind of tongue-in-cheek concept that might have percolated out of the subversive imagination of R. Crumb, underground cartoon chronicler of the 1960s. Grandma and Grandpa are passing the time in their rockers--and passing a joint back and forth as they recall their youthful marijuana-smoking days in Haight-Ashbury. In fact, according to three investigators at the National Institute on Drug...
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The Media Mob (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Journalist: The Comics Journal Weblog is reporting that Will Elder , the famed illustrator and one of the founders of Mad Magazine, has died at 86. (This comes via boing boing .) Elder was considered a major influence on artists like Robert Crumb and Daniel Clowes. Gary Groth, an editor at Fantagraphics, which published several Elder books (including Will Elder: The Mad Playboy of Art and Chicken...
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LP Cover Lover (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
“For Adults Only” Kent Records, 1969. This is actually a raunchy blues album by Johnny Otis and his son guitarist Shuggie “Inspiration Information” Otis, (thirteen at the time), and vocalist Delmar “Mighty Mouth” Evans under assumed names. The cover looks like R. Crumb, but it's not, Johnny Otis did it. This album could [...]
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