Drew Friedman has written a fantastic article on Robert Crumb for Vanity Fair‘s website, and to accompany the article, he has drawn an amazing portrait of the man himself. Check the article out here.
The Society of Illustrators in NYC presents R. Crumb: Lines Drawn On Paper, running March 23 - April 30, 2011, with an opening reception on Friday March 25 at 7:00 PM. Event Details: “Hogarth, Grosz, the Fleisher brothers, Tex Avery, Charles Addams, et cetera are great artists. And so is R. Crumb. In certain ways, [...]
This May, Drawn & Quarterly is set to publish Chester Brown‘s autobiographical defense of the profession of prostitution, Paying for it. In the run up to publication, they will be posting a new page from the book each week until release. This week, they revealed the book’s dust jacket, and a blurb written by Neil [...]
From the press release: During the Great Depression, before Joe Shuster’s illustration of Superman gave comics a mainstream voice in 1938, many other cartoonists dabbled in the creation of “dirty drawings.” This risqué artwork featured busty women, fetishes, bondage, homosexuality and other explicit sexual encounters. Beginning January 13, the Museum of Sex will flip through [...]
From the press release: September 23, 2021 – Los Angeles CA – From BOOM! Town, an imprint of BOOM! Studios, comes the inimitable art of R. Crumb (BOOK OF GENESIS) in R. CRUMB’S HEROES OF THE BLUES TRADING CARD SET in stores this November. R. Crumb’s original trading card collection is available again! Featuring legends [...]
From the press release: BOOM! Town announces R. CRUMB’S DEVIL GIRL™ CANDY TINS in stores this July. May 24, 2021 - Los Angeles - BOOM! Town, an imprint of BOOM! Studios, announced today R. CRUMB’S DEVIL GIRL™ HOT KISSES are coming to the direct market this July. Here’s something that’s really different! Everyone knows who [...]
From the press release: BOOM! Town announces R. CRUMB TRADING CARDS January 28th, 2010 - BOOM! Town, a new imprint of BOOM! Studios, announced today the R. CRUMB TRADING CARDS. R. CRUMB TRADING CARDS are presented to you by BOOM! Town through an arrangement with Denis Kitchen and Denis Kitchen Publishing. “I’m pleased have the [...]
Fantagraphics Books have just informed Hypergeek that they have a MASSIVE Cyber Monday sale on! Fantagraphics are one of my very favourite publishers, and seeing these sales, and not being able to pick anything up is killing me (I’m unemployed these days). I actually have an entire book case full of nothing but Fantagraphics products! [...]
