Vanessa Davis reviews Crumb’s Genesis for Tablet Magazine, and reflects on the influence that Crumb had on her becoming a cartoonist herself.
I promise I’ll shut up about Crumb for a while now.
(Strip ©2009 Vanessa Davis. via Journalista)
Austin Kleon went to a talk between Robert Crumb, Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly. And he took notes as only he can.
(artwork © Austin Kleon – Creative Commons license)
Dutch illustration and graphic design genius Joost Swarte recenty met up with Robert Crumb in his home in the south of France to discuss the Dutch edition of Genesis. And he asked him some questions for the November issue of the Dutch literary magazine, Hollands Diep. With a delightful two-page spread picture (which the above copy, which I grabbed from Hollands Diep’s website, doesn’t do justice at all).
(illustration © Joost Swarte)
Rob ‘Atom Bomb Bikini’ Ullman recently had dinner with Robert Crumb and reported on the experience in his regular Traffic & Weather column for Richmond Magazine.
The June, 8 issue of the New Yorker contains an excerpt from R. Crumb’s long-awaited new book, an illustrated version of the Bible, with an introduction by Françoise Mouly. The story is the well-known tale of how God created heaven and earth, and how man and woman betrayed God’s trust by eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge.
The art is quintessential Crumb – bearded old guys and well-toned, muscular women. But what’s even more interesting, is that he has started from the literal text, not a contemporary rewrite or interpretation. This renders the result more direct, more primitive, and, in my opinion, much more appealing.
The Bible seems to be quite in demand these days. On my daily commute, I’m currently listening to David Plotz’ audio version of this Good Book, in which he annotates his attempt to actually read the Bible from cover to cover. Highly recommended, if only for Plotz’ wry remarks when he again finds totally un-PC cruelty, paternalism or just plain bad editing.
(artwork © R. Crumb)
Found this portrait of R. Crumb by Charles Burns on Tumblr or something like it, and it immediately reminded me of a post I did a while ago. Crumb and Burns could be more separate stylistically, but still, they are both very much present in this particular piece.
The Guardian presents a slideshow of celebrity undergarments, more or less expertly decorated for the owners and offered in a charity auction on Ebay from 8 pm today onwards.
Next to the original John Major pant by cartoonist Steve Bell, the crude designs of Daniel Day Lewis and Emma Thompson’s huge spandex affair, our attention naturally went to Robert Crumb’s boxers; The newspaper described them thus :
Cartoonist Robert Crumb’s pants could not be more Crumb-like: huge, unironed and blue as the man himself, with a self-portrait saying, “This is sick.”
It can hardly get any more ephemere than this.
(“Thanks” to Sean for bringing this to my attention…)
A nice strip by Robert Crumb, originally from the Oxford American, issue 27/28 (the third annual Southern music issue, which strangely enough features Dusty Springfield). It’s sold out, sadly…
I’d never seen this album cover by Robert Crumb before, and it sure made my day.
(from Little Hokum Rag)
This is what happens when famous cartoonists visit other famous cartoonists. I like the way they also take over the typography, and even the type of balloons they talk with. Click on for the rest. It gets weirder.
(from Self-loathing Comics #2, art © 1997 R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Charles Burns, Peter Poplasky and Aline Kominsky)
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