‘1 NOVEMBER 2014’
(age 71)
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/krʌm/
*born ’30 august 1943’*
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(‘robert dennis crumb’ is an american ‘cartoonist’ / ‘musician’ who often signs his work r. crumb)
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(his work displays a nostalgia for ‘american folk culture’ of the ‘late 1800s’ + ‘early 1900s’)
(many of his works are charaterized by ‘satire’ of ‘contemporary american culture’)
(‘crumb’ is a prolific artist and contributed to many of the seminal works of the ‘underground comix movement’ in the 1960s, including being a founder of the first successful underground comix publication, Zap Comix, contributing to all 16 issues)
(he additionally contributed to the east village other and many other publications, including a variety of one-off and ‘anthology comics’)
(during this time, inspired by ‘psychedelics’ + ‘cartoons’ from the ‘1920s’ a 1930s, he introduced a wide variety of characters that became extremely popular, including countercultural icons ‘Fritz the Cat’ and ‘Mr. Natural’, and the images from his Keep on Truckin’ strip)
(sexual themes abounded in all these projects, often shading into ‘scatological’ and ‘pornographic’ comics)
(in the mid-1970s, he contributed to the Arcade anthology; following the decline of the ‘underground’, he moved towards biographical and autobiographical subjects while refining his drawing style, a heavily ‘crosshatched’ pen-and-ink style inspired by late 19th- and early 20th-century cartooning)
(much of his work appeared in a magazine he founded, Weirdo (1981–1993), which was one of the most prominent publications of the ‘alternative comics’ era)
(as his career progressed, his comic work became more autobiographical)
(in 1991, ‘crumb’ was inducted into the comic book industry’s “Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame”)
(he is married to cartoonist “Aline Kominsky-Crumb”, with whom he has frequently collaborated)
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(their daughter “sophie crumb” has also followed a ‘cartooning career’)
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