In 19 Crumb had a number of Fritz the Cat strips published in the men’s magazine Cavalier. The relationship was unstable as Crumb frequently went his own way, and he was not close to his son Jesse (b. Nearly destitute, the couple traveled in Europe, during which Crumb continued to produce work for Kurtzman and American Greetings, and Dana stole food. Crumb briefly illustrated bubblegum cards for Topps before returning to Cleveland and American Greetings.Ĭrumb married Dana Morgan in 1964. Crumb moved to New York, intending to work with Kurtzman, but Help! ceased publication shortly after. In 1965, cartoonist Harvey Kurtzman printed some of Crumb’s work in the humor magazine he edited, Help!. Dissatisfied with greeting card work, he tried to sell cartoons to comic book companies, who showed little interest in his work. In Cleveland, he met a group of young bohemians such as Buzzy Linhart, Liz Johnston, and Harvey Pekar. He stayed with the company for four years, producing hundreds of cards for the company’s Hi-Brow line his superiors had him draw in a cuter style that was to leave a footprint on his work throughout his career. His first job, in 1962, was drawing novelty greeting cards for American Greetings in Cleveland, Ohio. Robert Dennis Crumb CareerĬrumb’s father gave him $40 when he left home after high school. At fifteen, Crumb collected classical to jazz and blues records from the 1920s to the 1940s. In 1958 the brothers self-published three issues of Foo in imitation of Harvey Kurtzman’s satirical Humbug and Mad which they sold door-to-door with little success, souring the young Crumb on the comic-book business. His cartooning developed as his older brother Charles pushed him and provided feedback. Inspired by Walt Kelly, Fleischer Brothers animation and others, Crumb and his brothers drew their own comics. The family moved to Milford, Delaware, when Crumb was twelve and where he was an average student whose teachers discouraged from cartooning. 1944), both of whom suffered from mental illness, and daughters Carol (b. The couple had four other children: sons Charles Junior (1942–92) and Maxon (b. Charles and Beatrice’s marriage was unhappy and the children were frequent witnesses to their parents’ arguments. His mother Beatrice was a housewife who reportedly abused diet pills and amphetamines. Crumb, authored the book Training People Effectively and was a combat illustrator for twenty years in the United States Marine Corps. Robert Crumb was born on 30 August 1943 in Philadelphia, to a Catholic household of English and Scottish descent. Their daughter Sophie Crumb has also followed a cartooning career. He is married to cartoonist Aline Kominsky-Crumb, with whom he has frequently collaborated. In 1991, Crumb was inducted into the comic book industry’s Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame. As his career progressed, his comic work became more autobiographical. Much of his work appeared in a magazine he founded, Weirdo (1981–1993), which was one of the most prominent publications of the alternative comics era. In the mid-1970s, he contributed to the Arcade anthology following the decline of the underground, he moved towards biographical and autobiographical subjects while refining his drawing style, a heavily crosshatched pen-and-ink style inspired by late 19th- and early 20th-century cartooning. Sexual themes abounded in all these projects, often shading into scatological and pornographic comics. Natural, and the images from his Keep on Truckin’ strip. During this time, inspired by psychedelics and cartoons from the 1920s and 1930s, he introduced a wide variety of characters that became extremely popular, including countercultural icons Fritz the Cat and Mr. He was additionally contributing to the East Village Other and many other publications, including a variety of one-off and anthology comics. His work displays a nostalgia for American folk culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and satire of contemporary American culture.Ĭrumb is a prolific artist and contributed to many of the seminal works of the underground comix movement in the 1960s, including being a founder of the first successful underground comix publication, Zap Comix, contributing to all 16 issues. Robert Dennis Crumb is an American cartoonist and musician who often signs his work R.
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