New York Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
“R. Crumb’s Underground ” at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia offers an excellent opportunity to explore the artist’s five decades in comic strips.
The Herald (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Those of us who can't remember anything about the 1960s because we weren't born, this year have had to put up with baby-boomers reminiscing about 1968, painted as 12 months of sit-ins, student uprisings, civil rights triumphs and general grooviness.
Phawker (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
INQUIRER: [W]ith the opening on Friday of “R. Crumb’s Underground” at the Institute of Contemporary Art, the Philadelphia-born artist’s obsessions - collecting old-time blues and country 78s, riding piggy-back on powerfully built women, and forever depicting, as he has put it, “the seamy side of America’s subconscious” - will be on full display in the [...]
Comics Should Be Good! (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
Books? About comics? Actual prose? What the crap is up with that? It’s like comics are worthy of serious study or something! Let’s check this out! The New Press has recently published Jews and American Comics: An Illustrated History of an American Art Form, which is “edited” by Paul Buhle. [...]
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008
Robert Crumb recoils from himself. "I can barely speak of my own dark side!" the hysterically misanthropic sex maniac and self-loathing father of underground comics exclaims in a speech balloon, as he covers his eyes in shame. "My addictions are so contemptible and pathetic I can't reveal them to the public!"
scans_daily: Bringing the crack sin (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008
Bookgasm (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
Like pancakes and maple syrup, the two subjects of Paul Buhle’s JEWS AND AMERICAN COMICS: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF AN AMERICAN ART FORM are inexorably linked. Without one, we might not have the other. It’s something I never noticed before, but it’s true, and through words and pictures, Buhle traces their entire history together. Arranged in [...]
Seattle Weekly (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
In a 2004 interview with Comics Journal , Ivan Brunetti explained that during his childhood he was scrawny, terrible at sports, antisocial, and picked on by bigger kids. When CJ editor Gary Groth then asked why he was picked on, Brunetti responded, "I don't know....
The Guardian Books Blog (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
Scott McCloud has a fascinating typology of four, fundamentally different types of art - and artists. But how distinct are they?
The Agonist (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008
Give this excellent podcast over at the always excellent Electric Politics a listen. R. Crumb doesn't give many interviews, as a matter of fact, the last was one was in 2005. It's entertaining and enlightening. Check it out!
linkfilter.net - fresh links (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
One of the things people don't generally get about R. Crumb, and which in his self-deprecating way he may somewhat overlook himself, is his sense of kindness and fair play. He sees, and draws, not just the odd, amazing, tragic, surreal and funny things about human beings, but also good things, including the good we see in ourselves — even when it may not be strictly true. Called by the noted art critic...
Paul Soglin: Waxing America (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
Dave Medaris, Isthmus,was sorting through his stuff and came up on an old Soglin for mayor campaign poster, Souvenir keeps on truckin' - Rediscovering a vintage Soglin campaign poster Laying eyes on it took me back to 1971, when I...
Posse on Broadway (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
How Lisa Raye and Rocsi are trying to defraud an entire island nation.
Night Light (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
The Tibetan Book of the Dead has been published online in graphic novel form (that's comic book to you). So has Robert Crumb's illustrated version of Philip K. Dick's 'revelation', which Dick beleived revealed an underlying hidden reality (others call...
rodcorp (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
Ross Hansen, Roger Kelly, Adam Latham, Mariele Neudecker and Rosie Snell in a group show at Standpoint on humanity and natural world, "eulogising and destruction, aestheticising and control". Ross Hansen's drawings and paintings have undeniable quality in their painstaking detail...
