Archive for the 'Robert Crumb' Tag

Hunting for old records

Friday, May 16th, 2008

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…

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Memphis Jug Band

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

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I’d never seen this album cover by Robert Crumb before, and it sure made my day.

(from Little Hokum Rag)

Comics Jam !

Friday, November 9th, 2007

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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Crumb On Cornelius

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

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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).

Trucking My Blues Away

Friday, April 6th, 2007

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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.