{"title":"Robert Crumb","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Crumb is an American subversive comics artist and musician, born on August 30, 1943 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. With a wide range of talents, he plays banjo, ukulele, mandolin and guitar. He is known for his distinctive artistic style that challenges societal norms and conventions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a comic artist, Crumb has been influential in the underground comix movement since the 1960s. His works often explore controversial themes with satirical humor and social commentary. Alongside his successful career as a comics artist, Crumb is also an accomplished musician.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInspired by early blues musicians such as *Jerry Zolten*, *R. Crumb And His Cheap Suit Serenaders*, *Cannon's Jug Stompers*, and many others from the genre's rich history; Crumb incorporates his love for music into his creative endeavors. He has mastered various instruments including the banjo, ukulele, mandolin and guitar.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"crumb-s-world","title":"Crumb's World","description":"\u003cp\u003eInstrumental in the formation of the underground comics scene in San Francisco during the 1960s and 1970s, Crumb has ruptured and expanded the boundaries of the graphic arts, redefining comics and cartoons as countercultural art forms. Presenting a slice of Crumb’s unique universe, this book features a wide array of printed matter culled from the artist’s five-decade career―tear sheets of drawings and comics taken directly from the publications where the works first appeared, magazine and album covers, broadsides from the 1960s and 1970s, tabloids from San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury, Oakland, Manhattan’s Lower East Side, and other counterculture enclaves, as well as exhibition ephemera. Complementing this volume are historical works from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that have inspired Crumb and pages from his rarely seen sketchbooks from the 1970s and 1980s that reveal his exemplary skill as a draftsman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDocumenting the critically acclaimed exhibition \u003ci\u003eDrawing for Print: Mind Fucks, Kultur Klashes, Pulp Fiction \u0026amp; Pulp Fact\u003c\/i\u003e by the Illustrious R. Crumb at David Zwirner, New York, in 2019, curated by Robert Storr, this publication offers an opportunity to immerse oneself in Crumb’s singular mind. In the accompanying text, Storr explores the challenging nature of some of Crumb’s work and the importance of artists who take on the status quo.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Zwirner Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":50447321891147,"sku":"1106550","price":35.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/439eddca-52dc-47b9-adc0-13637c4f6aac_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727075861"},{"product_id":"robert-crumb-sketchbook","title":"Robert Crumb Sketchbook","description":"\u003cp\u003eA whole lot of Crumb Mid-1960s dispatches from America's most controversial cartoonist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's the old story. When Taschen released the first limited edition of Crumb Sketchbooks 1982 2011, fans drooled over the gorgeous packaging of this six-volume boxed set, the artist s thoughtful editing, the hand-written introduction, marbleized page edges, and signed Crumb-colored art print. Not all, however, could afford the steep price. So they whined and coveted, with the wail growing louder when the second boxed set, 1964 1982, was released the next year.Covet no more. Robert Crumb. Sketchbook, Vol. 1: June 1964 September 1968 combines the two earliest volumes from the limited editions, produced directly from the original artworks now belonging to an ardent French collector, into one fat 440-page Crumb feast, selling for an irresistible price.This book contains hundreds of sketches, including early color drawings from the master of underground comic art, cover roughs for the legendary Zap and Head comics, the original Keep On Truckin sketches, the first appearance of Mr. Natural, plus his evolution and refinement, Fritz The Cat, the Old Pooperoo, and many, many voluptuous Crumb girls. All this is wrapped up in a quality hard cover featuring an illustration newly hand-colored by Crumb himself. So why whine and pine? Now you can have Taschen quality at a pauper s price!\" \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"taschen","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":50450693259595,"sku":"1000026","price":33.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/d53d0f17-01a3-4ba1-ac98-49b6ceea4d13_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727114086"},{"product_id":"singing-in-the-bathtub","title":"Singing In The Bathtub","description":"\u003cp\u003eLegendary cartoonist and illustrator Robert Crumb was also a captivating musician who with his band The Cheap Suit Serenaders specialized in recreations of both early popular and rural rooted music and newly composed songs in those veins. The very talented band was composed of Terry Zwigoff (who later produced the award-winning movie \"Crumb\"), Robert Armstrong, Bob Brozman, Alan Dodge, and Tom Marion. 'Singing In The Bathtub' offers some of their best work including the title track as well as Chile Blues, Hula Girl, Sing Song Girl, Pedal Your Blues Away, My Gal Sal, and many more. Crumb and the Serenaders always provided delightful music with great spirit, humour, and energy\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shanachie","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50513375592779,"sku":"2176604","price":31.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_5c767fbb_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727929029"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/robert-crumb.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}