Mineshaft

Robert Crumb. 2003? "Billy the Kid" cover for Mineshaft. January 2003. # 10. First printing. 56 pages. Printed on Strathmore Bordeaux purple cover paper.

A lovely drawing of Billy the Kid typical of Crumb's pictures of folkloric figures. The cover stock is untypical: a kind of silver etching on beautiful hard purple paper. Produced for a small journal for which Crumb has contributed several other covers and articles over the years.

DIE VIELEN GESICHTER DER ROBERT CRUMB

R. Crumb. 2002. Karikatur Museum. Poster. 60 x 90 cm (23 1/2 by 33").

http://www.karikaturmuseum.at/programm/copy4_of_08/die-vielen-gesichter-der-robert-crumb

Very similar to the FATE magazine cover Bigfoot is Everywhere!

Bigfoot is Everywhere

Robert Crumb. 2000. Bigfoot is Everywhere! Poster. 18 x 12 inches (image size 14 3/4 x 11 inches).

This poster is from the cover of an issue for the science fiction magazine FATE. It has its roots in Crumb's Bigfoot drawings of the 1970s (for example see the Berkley art show flyer). A variation shows up as a poster for a Crumb exhibit in Austria. Crumb has done two other covers for FATE.

Qui a Peur de Robert Crumb?

Robert Crumb. 1999. Qui a Peur de Robert Crumb? Poster. 23 1/2 by 16 inches.

Crumb did the poster for the annual French comic convention. He was also president and received the festival's Grand Prix the year before.
There is a video by French TV (in French):
http://www.ina.fr/art-et-culture/litterature/video/CAB00004532/bande-dessinee-a-la-recherche-de-robert-crumb-president-du-festival.fr.html


Mercier, Jean-Pierre. 2000. Qui a peur de Robert Crumb? CNBDI. ISBN: 2907848224

Book released on the occasion of the Crumb exhibit. 2000 copies printed.

Sketchbook Reports & Help!

Robert Crumb. 2002. Sketchbook Reports. Cornélius.

The Sketchbook Reports reproduce two pieces Crumb did for Help! magazine in 1965 on Harlem and Bulgaria. These are likely the first examples of Crumb's published work.

Crumb, Robert. 1965a. Harlem. A Sketchbook Report. Help!, January.

---. 1965b. Bulgaria. A Sketchbook Report. Help!, July.

CRUMB-ology & Checklist

Richter, Carl. 1995. CRUMB-ology: The Works of R. Crumb 1981-1994. Water Row Press.
---. 1998. Crumb-ology Supplement Summer 1994 to August 1998. Water Row Books.
Don Fiene. 1981. R. Crumb Checklist. Boatner Norton Press.

These three books are indispensable for any Crumb collector. They painstakinly document his huge output and are organized in a logical way. They also interrelate where the same piece is used in different media. The latest two were compiled by Carl Richter (covering works done between 1981-1994) and build upon the original groundbreaking work by Don Fiene (covering the period through 1981). A fairly comprehensive selection of work done since 1998 is compiled on Uncle Carl's What's New.

Atom Mind

The cover of this Winter 1995 edition of Atom Mind is a reproduction of piece drawn in 1992 of an event from 1968. It shows Crumb peddling comics from a baby stroller along with his first wife at hippie ground zero: the intersection of Haight and Ashbury Streets in San Francisco. The caption refers to a "legend was born", presumably the launch of Zap Comix with Crumb sporting a saintly halo. The drawing appeared earlier in the 25th Anniversary Issue of the Whole Earth Review (No. 79, Summer 1993).

Robert Crumb. 1992. "Haight-Ashbury, early '68...and so a legend was born." Cover. Atom Mind. Vol. 4 No 15 (Winter 1995).