Robert Crumb. 1980. Cover for Winds of Change, Vol. II, No.4 (Oct 1980), 12 pp. Halloween Edition. 17 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches (half that length folded).
Crumb was a regular contributor to the alternative newspaper Winds of Change when he lived in Yolo County in northern California. He did a number of covers as well as illustrations inside the paper and also collaborated on the "Everyday Funnies" comic strip with his wife Aline
“The stuff I do for Winds of Change is my good-boy socially conscious responsible side...”—Robert Crumb. "Down Home Crumb." CoEvolutionary Quarterly. Summer 1982. #34. p. 52 (a two page spread on Winds of Change with various Crumb covers for the newspaper.)Four Winds of Change covers were reprinted in "The Yolo Portfolio" a 150 signed and numbered portfolio released in 1990. There was also an exhibition of some of the Winds of Change work:
“Robert Crumb may have escaped to France, but Yolo County remembers him. The longtime Winters resident, arguably the 20th-century American cartooning equivalent of Jonathan Swift, was an in-house artist for Winds of Change, a Davis alternative paper that was published from 1979-1983. Some 30 of Crumb’s line drawings, originally done for the paper, are on display through Wednesday, May 15, at Art de Vie, 231 E St., Davis.”⎯Jackson Griffith. Newsreview.com. 2 May 2002.
