Posted on 01/13/2015 5:33:26 PM PST by a fool in paradise
Interesting. Thanks for posting. I had to look up who Taylor Swift is.
R. Crumb is not only worried about poor little Muslims, he’s also jealous of Mad Magazine - the artists of that legendary rag (especially from the 1960s) put his schlock to shame. Mad Magazine insults everyone - who can forget their dig at Obama and Barf Bergdahl in early 2014?
Crumb never forgave Bakshi for FRITZ THE CAT.
pfl
“I highly recommend the documentary film “Crumb.” Sure he is unusual, but he is brilliant, in spite of an amazingly dysfunctional family.”
I saw that and you’re right. They were way beyond dysfunctional though.
Wayyyy beyond dysfunctional. The father and mother were psychos. All three brothers were artistically gifted, but one went psychotic and killed himself, another was a barely controlled sex pervert, and R. Crumb was the most artistically gifted and normal of the bunch.
Great interview! Crumb is still wise, funny and crazy. Good to know. God protect you, R. Crumb!
I have a rare (182 copies) signed, poster of a 3-D reproduction of one of his best FB shorts (hint: touring the south during before gas rationing and encountering a UFO), with a Fat Freddy’s Cat strip as a bonus.
Yeah ... me too
I wish we could find the cartoon of Fat Fredie’s Kat when Freddie took him to the ocean and told him that’s where Fish comes from. FFK’s looked right back up at Freddie and said, no...(I’m no fool, I know where Fish comes from)...Fish comes from little round tins!
So true....
So true....
I’m a big fan of R. Crumb... he and Frank Zappa were the only serious insider critics of the hippie movement. Very thought-provoking stuff. I even have his coffee table books including the his recent Genesis work. Yes, from the Bible. Crumb is the last honest comic artist.
Bob Crumb lives!
Still a nut!
(Rats, now i’m seeing trails...)
What year was that?
...and the documentary on writer Harvey Pekar and his American Splendor illustrated by Crumb.
His hard-R-rated illustrated publication of Genesis was a massive undertaking born of a flippant commitment.
Another cartoonist (contemporary but also part of the 70s underground comix) weighs in:
US press ‘hypocrites’ for not publishing Charlie Hebdo cartoons: Spiegelman AFP
Jan. 11, 2015, 11:35 PM
http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-us-press-hypocrites-for-not-publishing-charlie-hebdo-cartoons-spiegelman-2015-1
Beijing (AFP) - The American creator of “Maus”, a graphic novel about the Holocaust, has denounced the “hypocrisy” of US media for refusing to republish the cartoons of Charlie Hebdo magazine, targeted in an Islamist attack last week.
Art Spiegelman said he “admires” Charlie Hebdo and thought the satirical magazine fulfilled its “mission” in 2006 by publishing a controversial caricature of Mohammed.
“I think it’s so hypocritical to drape yourself in freedom of speech and then self-censor yourself to the point where you are not making your readers understand the issues,” Spiegelman told AFP during a visit to Beijing.
“That cartoon was not making fun of the prophet, it was excoriating the believers who would kill.”
While many media outlets republished several front-page cartoons in the wake of an attack that left 12 dead, among them some of Charlie Hebdo’s top cartoonists, some of the largest US newspapers, including the New York Times, refused for fear of offending readers...
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