Robert Crumb is an American cartoonist and made an important contribution to the underground comix movement in the 1960s. He was inducted into the comics industry's Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1991. Among his famous works are Fritz the Cat, Mr. Natural and Keep on Truckin'. These projects carry sexual themes that border on scatological and pornographic comics. . In the movie, you start to think that Robert is a madman, then you see his brothers and realize that he is the most adapted and sensible of them.



Fritz the Cat | Pt 01 | Opening Titles
Mr Natural Explains It All
A Short History of America by R. Crumb and Joni Mitchell

It was an invitation that the budding artist could not resist, especially since he had been fascinated by record covers since he was a teenager, especially for the legendary jazz, country and old blues music of the twenties and thirties. This early collaboration proved so successful that Crumb drew hundreds of record covers for both new artists and largely forgotten masters. Crumb's artistic interpretations of these ancient 78rpm singles were so remarkable that the art itself proved influential upon their rediscovery in the 1960s and 1970s. With classics like Truckin' My Blues Away, Harmonica Blues and Please Warm My Weiner , Crumb's opus also includes more recent covers for CDs. R. Crumb: The Complete Record Cover Collection is a must-have for any fan of graphics and early music.

Robert Crumb first started drawing record covers in 1968 when Janis Joplin, a fellow resident of Haight Ashbury, asked him to make a cover for her album Cheap Thrills
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R. Crumb The Complete Record Cover Collection

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