Anyone Here Like Artist R. Crumb Like I Do?

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Wyatt Burp

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I was going through my forty five year old comic book collection and among them found my adults only R. Crumb underground comics. About eight of them. I also have many books of his crammed with comix. He is my favorite artist of all time and I read them all for old times sake. This guy influenced my drawing far more than I realized reading them again. I know this is major antisocial stuff, but anyone else like this guy in your wild youth?
 
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Wyatt Burp said:
I was going through my forty five year old comic book collection and among them found my adults only R. Crumb underground comics. About eight of them. I also have many books of his crammed with comix. He is my favorite artist of all time and I read them all for old times sake. This guy influenced my drawing far more than I realized reading them again. I know this is major antisocial stuff, but anyone else like this guy in your wild youth?
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R. Crumb = greatest cartoon artist AND psychiatric.

There is a documentary on him.

He is very normal compared to his brothers, one of whom commit suicide who showed great promise as a cartoonist but went crazy.

I also have a big Crumb picture book about 5/8" thick of his cartoons and comics. I even still have a few old 'ZAP' comix around somewhere.

BTW Remember the 'Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers'. I've still got some and my wife and I feed each other lines and laugh about it.

"All my money, ALL my money!?"

'Come on you pedestrians, shake a leg!!"

"These must be the keys!"

And......

"You Dum Dum, you just offed the garbage man!"
 
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Oh hell yeah! I was a big fan of his. I always liked how there was so many things going on in each frame.
 
A couple of years ago, I got the cd of his life at the library. very strange but as most have said a very funny cartoonist.
 
Good post Wyatt. Brings back memories of reading those Zap Comic books with characters like "Nurse Diesel", "The Snoid from Cheboygan", and others that I can't remember right now.
I used to read those while holed up in my room with a lava lamp, black light and posters while listening to the "Firesign Theatre".
Glad I never inhaled.
 
I didn't recognize R. Crumb's name, but I certainly recognized his work. I read the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers a long time ago; I wonder what happened to the copies I had?
 
moosedog said:
Good post Wyatt. Brings back memories of reading those Zap Comic books with characters like "Nurse Diesel", "The Snoid from Cheboygan", and others that I can't remember right now.
I used to read those while holed up in my room with a lava lamp, black light and posters while listening to the "Firesign Theatre".
Glad I never inhaled.
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I didn't have a lava lamp, but I had these lights shaped like speaker boxes that plugged into my cheap little stereo and they flashed to the music. They were pretty cool actually. This was the early 70's. This doodle I did while talking to my son on line in Afghanistan might not show a Crumb influence on the surface, but I feel it.

 
The Big Brother and the Holding Co. cover was a classic. I always thought many of the girls at Greatful Dead concerts looked like his models.
 
I was hooked on all the Zap Comics back in the 70's. R. Crumb is a genious, I got a big kick out of all his characters from Mr. Natural to Suzi Creamcheese. I remember one cartoon that had a couple of 17th century pirates time warped into the 70's present sitting on Harleys blasting down the road...very graphic. I know an attorney with the last name of Crumb, I asked him if he might be a relative of R. Crumb because the family is from the Pacific N.W. He told me that he was his first cousin and that he was always a little weird. I believe he said that Crumb is living in France and doing well. I just read his book on Genesis and it is hilarious...look it up Genesis in Pictures...you won't be able to put it down.
 
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I was hooked on all the Zap Comics back in the 70's. R. Crumb is a genious, I got a big kick out of all his characters from Mr. Natural to Suzi Creamcheese. I remember one cartoon that had a couple of 17th century pirates time warped into the 70's present sitting on Harleys blasting down the road...very graphic. I know an attorney with the last name of Crumb, I asked him if he might be a relative of R. Crumb because the family is from the Pacific N.W. He told me that he was his first cousin and that he was always a little weird. I believe he said that Crumb is living in France and doing well. I just read his book on Genesis and it is hilarious...look it up Genesis in Pictures...you won't be able to put it down.
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My second favorite artist was S. Clay Wilson who was in Zap about the 4th issue. He did these pirate and bikers in extreme cluttered up chaos that was brilliant. He was/is a great story teller. If I described his comics I'd be ostracized from this forum. Kinman, are you sure you're pirate bikers weren't his stuff? Google "S Clay Wilson" then images. If so you'll know it instantly.This is insane stuff.
I really felt like I'd be alone on all this, but it feels great that you guys appreciate these comic books, too, R. Crumb specifically.
 
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Ya know I think your right about that, it was just one of the stories from Zap comics that I thought was great...got my people mixed up.
That was'nt Crumbs style, way too much detail. I remember the weird eyeball comics that you must have had to have recently dropped a tab of acid to be able to figure out...Wierd stuff...but Crumb and the rest were really intertaining and full of laughs, not very politically correct by any means.

I can still see the pirates on the bikes, one pirate says "What manner of craft is this that propels us like the very wind." A rat biker rides alongside and smacks one of the pirates with a beer can saying "Eat a can, lugnut." I used to laugh to myself reading those things
 
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Hey wyatt, my wife is a artist of a different type but I just showed her your doodle above and it cracked her up! She draws people realisticly and said she doesnt have that type imagination.
 
feralmerril said:
Hey wyatt, my wife is a artist of a different type but I just showed her your doodle above and it cracked her up! She draws people realisticly and said she doesnt have that type imagination.
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Thanks. I just drew one or two characters each day as I talked to my kid. People make the mistake thinking I think about this stuff. But it don't work that way. I draw a nose. Then and eye. And so on. Each feature is not planned out. I just make a consiuous (??) effort not to duplicate anything. Or try to. That's all the thinking involved in this.
 
I lived in Berkley when Zap hit my world.

Pretty much everyone looked like a character in the comic.

Pure genius and a really great artist.

1968 was definitely an altered time.;)

Mr. Burp, these things are roots for many who would never let on..........but you had to be there.
 
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