Tag: R. Crumb

  • R. Crumb’s Snapshots: Source Material of the Legendary Comic Artist

    R. Crumb’s Snapshots: Source Material of the Legendary Comic Artist

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/09/30/r-crumbs-snapshots-source-material-of-the-legendary-comic-artist/#1 Not able to find these details flipping through magazines, Crumb persuaded a friend of his — “Stanley Something-or-other” — to drive around commercial strips and “bleak, just-built suburbs” of California with him to take pictures of ordinary street corners.

  • Drawing out artist R. Crumb

    Drawing out artist R. Crumb

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    SF Gate: Fritz the Cat will be there. Mr. Natural will be there. The Snoid will be there. But R. Crumb will not. “Robert wears his nerves on the outside of his body,” explains Crumb’s wife, Aline, as they swap the Sheraton room telephone back and forth. “He appreciates the fact that all these people…