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John Morton
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Sep 17, 2010 - 12:40am PT
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I have always loved Crumb's illustrative style, certainly the best of the era. I mostly overlook the misogynistic stuff, but I am very interested in his views of cultural and (especially) music history. Crumb is a major collector of 78rpm records, and has issued numerous compilations from his collection. The above mentioned book about old blues and jazz is a great deal at $13+, hardbound and including a great disc of stuff from the Crumb archive of recordings.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=crumb+blues&x=0&y=0
My favorite Crumb book may be Odds and Ends, which is just miscellaneous casual and commercial art jobs: small town newspaper blurbs, business cards, invitations to potluck suppers, gig announcements, portraits of favorite historical musicians, etc.
http://www.amazon.com/Odds-Ends-R-Crumb/dp/1582341362/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1284697151&sr=1-1
John
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Sep 17, 2010 - 01:21am PT
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I've seen examples of the cards he created for Hallmark™ early in his career, but they don't seem to be jumping up on google right now....
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Sep 17, 2010 - 02:16am PT
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Did Angelfood make the Hallmark cards?
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Sep 17, 2010 - 11:25am PT
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I love Robert's work, Mr. Natural and Flakey Foont some of the faves. I've got a few up in the archives that I got while in junior high (early '70s). It was new stuff back then.
The unwanted publicity from the movie "Crumb" led Robert to pack up the family and move to France.
His ability to draw his ideal fantasy version of the female form is remarkable, what a great artist.
I remember one episode where Flakey hooks up with a female sasquatch and finds life in the woods to be pretty darn good.
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kunlun_shan
Mountain climber
SF, CA
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Sep 17, 2010 - 01:04pm PT
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Riding my bike the other day, I saw Maxon walking down the street here in SF. he's the Crumb brother, who in the movie sat on a bed of nails, and pulled down the woman's pants in Safeway. what an outrageous scene that was!
he used to panhandle, sitting full lotus on the sidewalk, until he started selling his drawings 5 or 6 years ago. was the 1st time I've seen him in quite a few years now.
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Jim Herrington
Mountain climber
New York, NY
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Sep 17, 2010 - 01:41pm PT
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Here's Crumb and I in NYC at the gallery opening for his new book, "The Book of Genesis", earlier this year.
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Oct 17, 2012 - 10:04pm PT
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I never saw this thread - thanks mousie
uRDMan
Sheeit - nobody posted these?
Shame, shame, shame
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Oct 17, 2012 - 10:29pm PT
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Oct 17, 2012 - 10:31pm PT
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Don't overlook Lenore
We don't show Romney no fuukin' badges
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Oct 17, 2012 - 10:32pm PT
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Take 2
Life goes on and things change
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Oct 17, 2012 - 10:57pm PT
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The Checkered Demon was a route put up in Washington at that time by my ol'
bud Lionheart who has posted here a few times. He was a veritable Mr Natural.
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stunewberry
Trad climber
Spokane, WA
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Oct 17, 2012 - 11:04pm PT
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Here's my tribute to the good Mr. Crumb. Done for an cross-country ski newsletter I used to do.
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Oct 17, 2012 - 11:18pm PT
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^Skittering along and waxing eloquent on religion.
Thanks stunewberry and for anyone looking at this with 65 year old eyes, don't forget to click to enlarge.
EDIT: BTW Tom Frost (now that's a name to remember), no need to apologize I think Crumb would have liked it.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 17, 2012 - 11:23pm PT
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Now you tell me!
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Oct 17, 2012 - 11:28pm PT
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Or 56 yr old eyes....
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Oct 17, 2012 - 11:34pm PT
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the eyes have it today, I spose - just don't get any fluid in 'em
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