Hunting for old records
Friday, May 16th, 2008A 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…
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)

Robert Crumb has provided the cover to a new book about French indy publisher par excellence Cornélius. It was originally conceived as the catalogue to an exhibition that was organised in Paris in march, but it’s also available on the Cornélius website (which, by the way, is one of the most beautiful publisher’s site I’ve ever seen).

While we’re on the subject of cartoonists doing record covers, here’s a ditty by Robert Crumb from 1978. Found on Low Cost Music.