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Robert Dennis Crumb, known professionally as R. Crumb, is an American comic book artist. His work displays a nostalgia for American folk culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and satire of contemporary American culture.
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culture · American illustrator and cartoonist (b. 1943) · cartoonist · comics artist · banjoist · journalist · novelist · recording artist · artist · musician · illustrator · also Robert Crumb, R. Crumb, Crumb
Born 30 August 1943 · Q435278
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Awarded Harvey Award for Best Artist (2010).
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“I had no intention to scandalize the Bible. I was intrigued by the challenge of exposing everything in there by illustrating it. The text is so significant in our culture, to bring everything out was a significant enough purpose for doing it.”
Artnet news: Robert Crumb Sassy Full-Figure Portrait Original Art (1987).
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The Guardian: Robert Crumb: 'I am no longer a slave to a raging libido'
Crumb's original cover art for the 1969 Fritz the Cat collection published by Ballantine sold at auction for $717,000, the highest sale price to that point for any piece of American cartoon art
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The Guardian: Robert Crumb: ‘I was born weird'
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The Seattle Art Museum displayed the original drawings for The Book of Genesis as part of an exhibit entitled "Graphic Masters: Dürer, Rembrandt, Hogarth, Goya, Picasso, R
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Observer: Legendary Cartoonist Robert Crumb on the Massacre in Paris
Released album “Chimpin’ the Blues”.
Played on their album Take A Look at That Baby and also took part in the accompanying music video
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The Guardian: Guardian Books podcast: graphic novels, with Robert and Aline Crumb
The Guardian: Robert Crumb's record covers – in pictures
The Guardian: The vibrant joy of Robert Crumb's album covers
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Awarded Harvey Award for Best Artist (2010).
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Awarded Best foreign work published in Spain (2010).
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The Guardian: A first look at Robert Crumb's The Book of Genesis
Crumb drew the artwork for a 10-CD anthology of French traditional music compiled by Guillaume Veillet for Frémeaux & Associés
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Crumb produced The Book of Genesis, an unabridged illustrated graphic novel version of the biblical Book of Genesis
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Prepared, compiled and illustrated the book R
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Released album “R. Crumb's Music Sampler”.
Crumb brought legal action against Amazon
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AV Club: The Confessions Of Robert Crumb (DVD)
Awarded Grand prix de la ville d'Angoulême (1999).
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And Hot Women: Women Singers from the Torrid Regions in 2009
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“Trop de Routes, Trop de Trains”
In Weirdo) like this: "Crumb
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And 1993, Robert Crumb was involved in a project by Dutch formation the Beau Hunks and provided the cover art for both their albums The Beau Hunks play the original Laurel & Hardy music 1 and 2
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Awarded Will Eisner Hall of Fame (1991).
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Crumb was inducted into the comic book industry's Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame, and in 1994, the Terry Zwigoff film Crumb explored his artistic career and personal life
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Which is said to have been financed by the sale of six Crumb sketchbooks
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Awarded Inkpot Award (1989).
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A nomination for the Harvey Special Award for Humor in 1990 and the Angoulême Grand Prix in 1999
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In an issue of Hup magazine, Crumb had drawn a satirical comic, Point the Finger, lampooning businessman Donald Trump
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With a new introduction by Crumb; ISBN 0-671-66153-1
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Founded "Les Primitifs du Futur"—a French band whose eclectic music has incorporated Bal-musette, folk, jazz, blues and world music—playing on their albums "Cocktail d'Amour" (1986), "Trop de Routes, Trop de Trains" (
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Illustrations by Robert Crumb accompanied ''Texas Crude: The How-To on Talkin’ Texan'', a compendium of regional slang compiled by Ken Weaver, former drummer of The Fugs
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Crumb conceived of a magazine with a lowbrow aesthetic inspired by punk zines, Mad, and men's magazines of the 1940s and 1950s
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In 1978, Crumb divorced Dana and married Aline, with whom Crumb has frequently collaborated.
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Crumb allowed his artwork to be used as pictorial rubber stamp designs by Top Drawer Rubber Stamp Company, a collaboration between cartoonist Art Spiegelman, publisher Françoise Mouly, and people living at Quarry Hill Cr
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Crumb divorced Dana and married Aline, with whom Crumb has frequently collaborated
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And 1970 respectively), Big Ass Comics, R
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Cartoonist Harvey Kurtzman printed some of Crumb's work in the humor magazine he edited, Help
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And 1966, Crumb had a number of Fritz the Cat strips published in the men's magazine Cavalier
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Who gave birth to their son Jesse in 1968
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Was drawing novelty greeting cards for American Greetings in Cleveland, Ohio
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The brothers self-published three issues of Foo in imitation of Harvey Kurtzman's satirical Humbug and Mad which they sold door-to-door with little success, souring the young Crumb on the comic-book business
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Born 1943-08-30.
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