― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 22:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― -- (688), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 23:04 (seventeen years ago) link
Update on Crumb's youngest brother Maxon:http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/03/DDGU7L4D4F59.DTL
From that article:
His room at the Winsor Hotel, home for the past 26 years, is filthy. [...] Books on poetry, art and computer programming sit in piles; [...] There's [...] various computer parts[...].
Does anyone know or have any ideas about what his interest in computers and computer programming is?
― RR, Thursday, 13 May 2010 00:03 (fourteen years ago) link
england 1934? what's that? (x-post)
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 13 May 2010 01:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Crumb interview tonight and next week on Antique Phonograph Program on WFMU. The promo implies that they will be sticking pretty closely to the topic of collecting old 78s. Part 2 next week will include Crumb performing with the East River String Band.
― The Louvin Spoonful (WmC), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 16:04 (thirteen years ago) link
awwwwwesome. john from the east river string band is a real swell dude too.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 17:41 (thirteen years ago) link
must listen to this later
― your generation appalls me (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 April 2011 23:43 (thirteen years ago) link
It was really good. At least part of it was videotaped -- there are three video segments at the playlist page.
― The Louvin Spoonful (WmC), Saturday, 9 April 2011 00:42 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.goldenfrogpress.com/images/101018-Posters/005.jpg
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 01:46 (nine years ago) link
alternatively: http://www.goldenfrogpress.com/images/101018-Posters/005.jpg
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 01:47 (nine years ago) link
http://www.eastriverstringband.com/radioshow/?p=1281
― ian, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 05:28 (nine years ago) link
http://observer.com/2015/10/robert-crumb-hates-you/
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 15 October 2015 22:04 (eight years ago) link
Crumb is a great example of how works of art can be made by obsessive people who make almost everyone else uncomfortable. He just doesn't have a mental filter to screen his socially awkward thoughts from view. If he weren't able to generate art from his obsessions, he'd just be a creepy social outcast.
― Blind Lemon Extract (Aimless), Thursday, 15 October 2015 23:39 (eight years ago) link
"Peter Bagge's comics are very funny stories about young punk rock-type kids, a very sympathetic portrayal of their world."
Not sure from this that Crumb has actually read any of Bagge's comics.
― everything, Thursday, 15 October 2015 23:43 (eight years ago) link
He just doesn't have a mental filter to screen his socially awkward thoughts from view.
It seems so genuine and spontaneous from Crumb, no matter how troubling the words. With someone like Trump, the same thing seems calculated to me.
― clemenza, Thursday, 15 October 2015 23:48 (eight years ago) link
tbh robert seems like the most well-adjusted and normal person in his family
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 15 October 2015 23:49 (eight years ago) link
It would be impossible to say otherwise for anyone who's seen Zwigoff's film.
― clemenza, Thursday, 15 October 2015 23:55 (eight years ago) link
crumb otm about the ingrained sexism in hippie (as in all other) culture
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 16 October 2015 00:02 (eight years ago) link
this threads quoted in the r crumb pocket guide apparently http://i.imgur.com/OduUc4p.png
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Friday, 16 October 2015 00:12 (eight years ago) link
lolllll
― brimstead, Friday, 16 October 2015 00:38 (eight years ago) link
just a bit of fun
― pplains, Friday, 16 October 2015 02:27 (eight years ago) link
that interview is terrific
“Your character in your work is more vulnerable than that—brutally honest, but human. I don’t see misogyny in your work,” I told him.“It’s there,” Mr. Crumb replied.
“It’s there,” Mr. Crumb replied.
― playlists of pensive swift (difficult listening hour), Friday, 16 October 2015 02:35 (eight years ago) link
hah
― johnny crunch, Friday, 16 October 2015 02:37 (eight years ago) link
lmao @ pocket book
― flopson, Friday, 16 October 2015 11:43 (eight years ago) link
Charles is such a strange figure, the way he looms over R's psychology is sort of tragic. That Crumb repeatedly insists he was one of the greatest cartoonists ever due to the stuff he did as a kid/teenager is o_0
― Οὖτις, Friday, 16 October 2015 15:46 (eight years ago) link
i will read any john waters or robert crumb interview.
― scott seward, Friday, 16 October 2015 15:56 (eight years ago) link
http://www.ideologic.org/media/filter/l/img/crumb_2.jpg
― ian, Saturday, 17 October 2015 04:54 (eight years ago) link
That comic sums up the main attraction of Crumb's work to me - his ability to succinctly describe some messed up thing you keep doing/thinking and can't stop doing/thinking, even though you know it's messed up and that you'll feel way better if you stop doing/thinking it.
― "Tell them I'm in a meeting purlease" (snoball), Saturday, 17 October 2015 09:26 (eight years ago) link
Somebody once said he did a comic confessing to rape, really hope that's not true but do you guys have any idea what comic might be meant? If it was true I would have thought it'd be brought up more regularly instead of the decapitation fantasy stuff.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 17 October 2015 10:59 (eight years ago) link
i'd guess the conclusion to the "memories are made of this" comic that's excerpted in the interview
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Saturday, 17 October 2015 15:05 (eight years ago) link
Is that record collecting comic before or after the one Pekar did about when he abruptly stopped listening/buying jazz? I don't recall if Pekar got rid of his collection but I know he got back into listening to jazz, or sounds like he did from this really great interview. http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/07-12-10-podcast.htm#podcast071410
I think most people who get rid of their collections will feel great for a while but probably end up rebuilding it, but smaller and more sensibly and probably regret getting rid of so many things.
I got rid of half my comics once and there was a bunch of things I regretted that I ended up buying again. Some things I'm getting rid of a second time which I'm fairly sure I won't buy a third time. I once accidentally deleted my whole digital pornography collection then was hesitant to save any such images again but after several months I inevitably started building it up again. So I'm fairly confident that getting rid of all my stuff would be an utterly stupid idea, however much a burden it feels at times.
I really don't get people who can just give away everything immediately after they've finished with it. Especially music or art books.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 18 October 2015 22:57 (eight years ago) link
There's an exhibition of his Art And Beauty images right now and then a book set comes out in a few months. This is the stuff I've most wanted. Never really been interested in his comics.
Apparently a lot of the newest stuff is drawn from selfies that girls have sent him. Really looking forward to seeing that.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 21 April 2016 21:30 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2ZWrWmypA0
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 06:53 (four years ago) link
unrepentant to the end.
its weird how he doesn't connect his compulsive confessionalism to his Catholic upbringing. Maybe he has elsewhere and just doesn't touch on it in this interview.
The only other cultural tradition I can think of besides Catholicism that places so much emphasis on confession - as if its a virtue in and of itself - is psychoanalysis.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 16 January 2020 22:46 (four years ago) link
AA
― bidenfan69420 (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 16 January 2020 23:16 (four years ago) link
Scientology
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 19 January 2020 14:00 (four years ago) link
great interview/ramble
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 19 January 2020 16:48 (four years ago) link
Has he ever commented on the whole Thicc phenomenon? Seems like an improvement in society he would like.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 19 January 2020 17:54 (four years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/user-830367218/fumigating-the-cave-robert-crumb-with-dan-nadel-ep001-5042020Crumb discusses COVID, conspiracy theories, therapy
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 17:03 (four years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Thursday, January 16, 2020 2:46 PM (three months ago) bookmarkflaglink
in catholicism you confess in private tho
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:14 (four years ago) link
xp listening to that interview now. he's really got some big ideas about viruses and vaccines
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 14:55 (four years ago) link
he's definitely "asking some questions"
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 19:01 (four years ago) link
https://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/Lots/auction-lot/DAVID-WOJNAROWICZ--1954---1992--Stoned-Sketchbook?saleno=2544&lotNo=162&refNo=769210https://hyperallergic.com/581386/david-wojnarowiczs-stoned-sketchbook-swann-auction-galleriesso weird that neither the gallery nor the hyperallergic write up mention that these are all copies from zap! 12k for a swipebook!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 10 August 2020 17:57 (four years ago) link
Looks like an update based on the comments, but the hyperallergic article now says: "(These drawings appear to replicate those of cartoonist R. Crumb and his comic strip Stoned, included in Head Comix, a collection of his comics published by Viking Press in 1968.)"
― nickn, Monday, 10 August 2020 20:02 (four years ago) link
yeah, that wasn't there this morning; editor dropped the ball. no reference to crumb at all in the gallery description!in any case, pretty sure those are from Zap originally.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 10 August 2020 20:13 (four years ago) link
Does a gallery of all 9 original panels of "A Short History of America" exist online in a decent (or *gasp* high) resolution?
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 28 March 2024 01:08 (five months ago) link
fairly large
― visiting, Thursday, 28 March 2024 02:54 (five months ago) link
Ah, I never realized this was originally b/w, I wonder if he colored it in for later editions?
Thank you very much.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 28 March 2024 16:22 (five months ago) link
The original comic is in black and white ink, consisting of a total of twelve panels.[7]
In 1981, a new version was released by Kitchen Sink Press, with Peter Poplaski adding color to the original work and turning it into a commercial poster for sale.[9]
― Kim Kimberly, Thursday, 28 March 2024 16:40 (five months ago) link
ISO
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 28 March 2024 16:49 (five months ago) link
https://www.deniskitchen.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Store_Code=sk&Screen=PROD&Product_Code=SP_RC.shorthist
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 28 March 2024 16:50 (five months ago) link
Kitchen is selling his archives through Heritage rn fyi
― bae (sic), Thursday, 28 March 2024 17:44 (five months ago) link
Could you *gulp* front me a few racks?
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 28 March 2024 18:07 (five months ago) link