Komiks Fest! revue

A Czech comics journal I picked up when I was in Prague. This issue has a feature on R. Crumb. It includes the Czech version of Crumb's "My Trouble with Women", a Gilbert Shelton piece, the front and back cover by Crumb and an ad for the upcoming Prague Writer Festival where both Crumb and Shelton will appear. Mr. Crumb kindly signed it for me.



Crumb, R. 2009. "My Troubles with Women (1980). " Trans. Richard Podany. Komiks Fest! revue, April.

Robert Crumb presenting Janet Joplin with Cheap Thrills

Drew Friedman. 2009. Cheap Thrills. Pigment ink on heavyweight (310g) natural white rag paper. Image area is 13-3/4" high x 13-5/8" wide on an untrimmed 22" x 17" sheet. Signed "11/30-Cheap Thrills-Drew Friedman" on the bottom. © Drew Friedman.

Drew Friedman did this image of Crumb presenting his Cheap Thrills album cover to Janis Joplin, an incident taking place in 1968. The scene is described here. Friedman is a long time colleague of Crumb, contributed to Weirdo magazine and counts Crumb as his favorite artist. The Friedman technique is ingenious and detailed with masterful daubs of color to simulate a photo. The technical details regarding the print production is here.

A Short History of America

Robert Crumb. 2009. Print. A Short History of America. Giclee color print. 24 x 20 inches (paper size) 22 x 15 inches (image size). Limited edition. Signed "59/500" in lower right.

Crumb's iconic drawing of the transformation of America. A fair number of reproductions have been made over the years. It has also been transformed into a YouTube video to the music of Joni Mitchell (whose portrait was done by artist Mary Fleener).

☜Robert Crumb. "A Short History of America." CoEvolution Quarterly. Fall 1979. # 23. pp 21-24.

The original came out as a four page black & white spread in the CoEvolution Quarterly. The answer to "WHAT NEXT?!!" in the last panel is answered almost a decade later in a back cover for an issue of The Whole Earth Review.

There's a black and white YouTube version set to piano music.

Flesh & Blood Comics

Robert Crumb. 2009. "Flesh and Blood Comics" in point d'ironie. October 2008. No. 45. 12 pages. This came out in an art "newspaper" published by French fashion designer agnès b. The editor is Hans-Ulrich Obrist who wrote a book about Crumb. Some 100,000 free copies were distributed around the world in agnès b. boutiques and other locations. There is also a web version.



point d'ironie n°45

Underground

Robert Crumb. 2008. [ICA Underground Exhibit]. Poster. 24 x 36 inches. (Original drawing is circa 1968 and appears on the cover of R. Crumb. 1997. Sketchbook. Volume 6 Mid 1968 to Mid '69.

Poster for the Underground exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art in the University of Pennsylvania. For details see. The picture used for the poster is from Crumb's 1968-69 sketchbook. It features a trio of happy, round, Renoirish women reminiscent of other joyful big-boned women Crumb has drawn through the years. The back of the poster lists the pieces in the exhibit.

Cheap Thrills

Robert Crumb. 2008 (original 1968). Cheap Thrills. Giclee print. Numbered "147/500" in lower right. Paper Size: 23" x 24" Image Size: 17" x 17".

Crumb's iconic Cheap Thrills cover for Janis Joplin and her Big Brother and the Holding Company band second album. Each song is illustrated with a different cartoon. The lettering, drawing, coloring and overall composition are impeccable, showing off Crumb's skills at the peak of his "hippie" period.

La Famille D'Artistes Exposition CRUMB