R.
Crumb
If there's one single name to embody nort-american underground comics in
60's, this name is Robert Crumb. Everything begun
with Zap!Comix, and by everything I refer to Snoid,
Mr. Natural, Shuman the human, Angelfood McSpade
and many other, spawned on the wedding of crazy sixties and Crumb's
bizarre mind. More know due to the cover of Janis Joplin's Lp Cheap
Thrills nd by the bumper sticker "Keep on trucking",
Crumb was what usetd to be called contestatory. He meant to comics
what Jimi Hendrix meant to music, he even did a comic version of
one Hendrix song, Purple Haze.
After the initial works, Crumb did some stories with his wife
-- he did the male characters; her, the female ones, and left behind the
themes he were working at so far, dedicating to blues and comic
book versions of literary works. Today, he is one of the most complete
north american artists, a chronist of his time, a re-creator of the comics
medium and a major influence on the work of Peter Bagge, Daniel
Clowes, Dave Sim and Eddie
Campbell.
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