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 Robert Crumb (born 30 August 1943 ) is a cartoonist, artist and illustrator. Unsourced Though I might be very fond of particular individuals, humanity in general fills me with contempt and despair. I hate most of what passes for civilization. I hate... 
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 Crumb, Robert (1943—) Summary
971 words, approx. 3 pagesRobert Crumb is the most famous and well respected of all underground comic artists, and the first underground artist to be accepted into the mainstream of popular American culture. His comics are notable for explicit, detailed, and unflattering... summary from source:
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Robert Dennis Crumb (born August 30, 1943), often credited simply as R. Crumb, is an American artist and illustrator recognized for the distinctive style of his drawings and his critical, satirical, subversive view of the American mainstream. He...
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 Artforum Robert Crumb
03/01/2005: 871 words, approx. 3 pages ROBERT CRUMB MUSEUM LUDWIG, COLOGNE "Yeah, but is it art?" R. Crumb's comicstrip alter ego asked on the poster for this eponymous retrospective at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. For many audiences, the question might have seemed beside the point. After all,... summary from source:
Film Comment Crumb of discomfort. (documentary of cartoonist Robert Crumb)
07/01/1995: 1,878 words, approx. 6 pages The life and works of cartoonist Robert Crumb is documented in the film 'Crumb' by Terry Zwigoff. Zwigoff treats the details of Crumb's life by presenting him at work in his studio, with his immediate family and with the cartoons he is working on.... summary from source:
 The New York Observer April 13 \'d0 20, 2005
4/17/2005: 2,130 words, approx. 7 pagesWednesday 13thLessons learned this week! April is turning out to be the cruelest for some of our favorite famous folk (as death claimed holy men, literary men and princes without discretion), the Shake Shack is as delicious as promised but the lines make you equally... summary from source:
The New York Observer April 13 – 20, 2005
4/17/2005: 2,130 words, approx. 7 pagesWednesday 13thLessons learned this week! April is turning out to be the cruelest for some of our favorite famous folk (as death claimed holy men, literary men and princes without discretion), the Shake Shack is as delicious as promised but the lines make you equally...
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 Critical Essay by Harvey Pekar
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There is a vigorous avant garde cartoonists' movement in America today. Most of the artists involved in it are unknown to the general public but one of them, Robert Crumb, has developed a following that extends beyond the hippie subculture into a variety of social classes. (p. 677) By now a number of underground comics have been published…. Perhaps the best known of them is Zap, out of San Francisco, which was created by Crumb in 1967. It was one of the first underground comics to be published... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Arthur Asa Berger
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There are many parodies in the underground comics, and comic strip and comic book heroes are frequently ridiculed. But the underground comics also ridicule the absurdities of the counterculture as well as those of bourgeois culture. For example, one of the most interesting underground heroes is Robert Crumb's fake guru, Mr. Natural, a horny old man with a bald head and long flowing whiskers. His cohort is a seeker-after-knowledge named Flakey Foont, who never gains any satisfaction from Mr. Natural, ... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Thomas Maremaa
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Robert Crumb has been picking up a rich harvest from the discards on the trash heap of American pop culture, recycling old material into new modes of comic art…. These books, notably "Zap Comix," "Despair" and "Fritz the Cat," have doubtless been some of the most outrageous and controversial works ever drawn in the history of the art, largely because of their free-wheeling and uninhibited treatment of sex. His work has been scorned as filthy and obscene, and ...
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