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A Crumb Cameo
Comic fans who pick up E.L. Doctorow’s new novel Homer & Langley will be interested in a character named Connor who is described by the sight-impaired narrator Homer Collyer in these terms: Connor,...
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Delights
Feiffer on the left, Mayer on the right… A couple recent items have sparked my comics fancy. First, The Toon Treasury of Classic Children’s Comics, edited by Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly. This...
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Crumb’s Visual Sources: Research Note 2
Robert Crumb is a great synthesizer, a great adopter of other people’s stylistic conventions which he cunningly redeploys for his own ends. Any in-depth analysis of Crumb has to come to terms with the...
View ArticleWorst Comics Criticism of the 21st Century
Lately there has been an attempt to flesh out what constitutes good comics criticism. There was a Hooded Utilitarian roundtable on the topic and Ben Schwartz has edited a soon-to-be-released book...
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Doing Justice to Crumb
Crumb's Boswell.As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve been disappointed by the critical response to Crumb’s Genesis book. It is not so much a matter that the book hasn’t won enough praise, but rather that the...
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Interviews and Autodidacts Notebook
Gil Kane, an artist whose interviews are always worth reading.A notebook on comics interviews and autodidacts: Autodidacts. I often think William Blake is the prototype for many modern cartoonists....
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A Pekar Notebook
Pekar as drawn by Crumb. Some jottings from my Pekar notebook: Pekar and Crumb. When I saw Harvey Pekar earlier this year, we chatted a bit about Crumb. Pekar was very pleased by one thing I said,...
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Rosenbaum on Crumb
Some Monday reading for you. The often enlightening and always at least thought-provoking (even at his most objectionable) Jonathan Rosenbaum has reprinted his 1995 essay on Terry Zwigoff’s Crumb....
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Class and Comics: Labour Day Notes
Reid Fleming: Working Class HeroLabour Day is coming up, so let’s talk about social class: 1. In the R. Crumb Handbook, the creator of Mr. Natural writes: “Some of the other comics that Charles and I...
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Learning from Don Donahue
Photo by another undergrounder gone: Clay Geerdes I was saddened to learn of Don Donahue’s passing. Don was most famously the publisher of Zap #1 in 1968. According to Patrick Rosenkranz in his...
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