Crumb, Robert (1943—)
Robert 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 America...
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Critical Essay by J. D. O'hara
[The] best young comics-makers, Robert Crumb and Vaughn Bodé, aren't sick and dirty; they're gross and funny. Their grossness takes the form...
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Critical Essay by Christopher Lehmann-haupt
[In a sense, the future of George Herriman's character Krazy Kat] may be taken care of by R. Crumb's "Fritz the Cat." Mr. Crumb...
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Critical Essay by Harvey Pekar
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, Rob...
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Critical Essay by Jacob Brackman
Zap #1 and #0 are 100 percent Crumb, as are several Rip Off numbers, like Big Ass Comix ("Weird Sex Fantasies with the Behind in Mind"). Motor City Comi...
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Critical Essay by Thomas Maremaa
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…...
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Critical Essay by Arthur Asa Berger
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 abs...
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Critical Essay by George Arthur
Downhome Dadaism in a cheap suit, but this time around it's a double-knit. Crumb becomes cartoonist-cum-crooner [in R. Crumb and His Cheap Suit Serenaders], rip...
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Critical Essay by Susan Goodrick
Crumb loves to use his satirical touch to strip … people naked. He gets them all—from the spiritualist who would give it all up for a good lay to the in...
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Wednesday 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 S...
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Wednesday 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 S...
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Considering all the trouble cartoons have caused in the world lately, it was with some trepidation that I entertained James Mundy’s request. James is both a friend and the director of the Fra...
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Considering all the trouble cartoons have caused in the world lately, it was with some trepidation that I entertained James Mundy’s request. James is both a friend and the director of the Fra...
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The Lotte Berk Method flagship exercise studio on East 67th Street is closing, after catering to the rich, famous and saggy for the last 35 years. "It's like a divorce," said Upper East Side writer...
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Crumb, Robert (1943—)
Critical Essay by J. D. O'hara
April 13 \'d0 20, 2005
