October 18, 2009
October 18, 2009
The Book of Genesis is currently # 54 on the Amazon sale chart and moving up.
Crumb gives some insight in The New York Times on Sunday Oct. 18.
The U.S. publicity tour is about to begin: New York on October 23 at Barnes and Noble.
Richmond, Va. on Oct. 27 at Modlin Center for the Arts.
Los Angeles on Oct. 29 at Royce Hall to co-incide with the exhibit at the Hammer Museum.
On Oct. 31 at Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.
Austin on November 13 at Bass Concert Hall.
The new East River String Band CD Drunken Barrel House Blues is about to be released with another great Crumb cover.
July 14, 2009
The Cresting Wave is the title of a group show of underground comix artists at Electric Works in San Francisco from July 10 through August 22. Check the store for a mini-print of the cover of Zap 2.
Crumb designed the poster for the first M.A.D. in Sauve arts festival.
There are print and audio versions of a recent interview with Crumb on the Radio Prague web site .
May 11, 2009
Stop Smiling! Pick up the latest issue of the magazine with a Crumb interview and cover. Note - there are two covers, the other has David Lynch.
Meanwhile there's a beautiful portrait of Christine Maggiore author of What If Everything You Thought You Knew About AIDS Was Wrong?
Thanks to Russell and Eric for the info!
March 24, 2009
Robert and Aline Crumb will be guests at the 2009 Prague Writers’ Festival June 7 to 11.
Crumb's version of the European Union flag was designed for the Festival.
March 23, 2009
Crumb has finished the Book of Genesis project. It is scheduled for publication on October 19, 2009.
The R. Crumb's Underground exhibit was at the Stephen D. Paine Gallery at Massachusetts College of Art and Design from Feb. 4 to March 7.
Underground Classics: The Transformation of Comics into Comix, 1963 - 1990 will be at the University of Wisconsin - Madison's Chazen Museum of Art from May 2 to July 12, 2009.
October 31, 2008
Robert and Aline are joined by daughter Sophie in the November 3 issue of The New Yorker.
August 27, 2008
There's a podcast interview with Crumb at the Electric Politics site. Thanks to Everett Rand for that one!
The Official Crumb site has been updated with Aline's account of a Crumb Family reunion in Minnesota this Summer and a Family History by Charles Crumb, senior.
August 15, 2008
Publisher W.W. Norton has acquired the rights to reprint The R. Crumb Handbook and The Sweeter Side . Both will have some revisions and new introductions. Meanwhile no date has been set for Norton's Book of Genesis which Crumb has been working on for the past few years and is nearing completion.
The R. Crumb's Underground exhibition travels to Philadelphia's Institute of Contemporary Art , September 5 to December 7.
Crumb played with Eden and John's East River String Band recently. Go to their site for some videos.
May 31, 2008
The vinyl edition of Some Cold Rainy Day by The East River String Band is now available. To order go to the site and click on the "new CD and LP" tab.
April 21, 2008
Two new Cd's with Crumb covers: Eden & John's East River String Band - "Some Cold Rainy Day".
AND... check out the Looking for Crumb site for info on the latest from Les Primitifs du Futur.
March 10, 2008
Waiting for Food 4 is on the way from Oog & Blik.
January 24, 2007
R. Crumb's Underground exhibition opens at Seattle's Frye Art Museum January 26.
November 21, 2007
Robert and Aline are back in the New Yorker (November 26) with a 3 page story: "Our Beloved Tape Dispenser."
September 18, 2007
Two Yazoo record covers have been issued as silkscreen prints. Now available from Griffioen Grafiek.
Time to get your 2008 Classic Crumb Calendar and desk planner. Order a set for every room.
June 5, 2007
Yet another pricey volume from Tashen Books : R. Crumb's Sex Obsessions will be published August 30.
May 14, 2007
The deluxe edition of a forthcoming book on porn star Vanessa del Rio will include a color signed print of Crumb's portrait of her, limited to 200 signed copies. The original artwork for that print can be seen here.
May 11, 2007
All of the works from the Crumb show at David Zwirner Gallery can be seen on their site.
April 30, 2007
The catalog for the Bonham's auction mentioned below is up on their web site.
David Zwirner in association with Paul Morris is now representing Crumb. An exhibit will open at the Gallery on May 11.
An impressive tour of the Yerba Buena show can be seen on the flickr site.
There's a transcript of the February 14 appearance of Robert & Aline at the NYPL site .
April 29, 2007
LA FAMILLE CRUMB an exhibit featuring the work of Robert, Aline, Max & Sophie Crumb at the Musée de Sérignan April 21 to June 17.
March 4, 2007
Mortgage the farm! You'll need the money for the Crumb art to be auctioned at Bonham's (Thanks, Russell!).
The Crumbs have a cover feature in the latest issue of Heeb Magazine .You might find copies at Borders Books.
Gallery update:
A news item and blog review of last month's Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery show.
Tickets for the March 17 opening of the Yerba Buena Crumb show now available.
February 6, 2007
Aline and R. have a two page color strip in the February 12 issue of the New Yorker .
January 30, 2007
Live from the NYPL: "Need More Love - Aline Kominsky Crumb in Conversation with R. Crumb" at the New York Public Library on February 14.
A transcript of Crumb's last appearance at NYPL in 2005 is available here.
Robert Crumb: My True Inner Self - Drawings and Sculpture 1960 to the Present will be at Philadelphia's Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery January 22 til February 27.
"R. Crumb Drawings" is currently on view at San Francisco's Rena Bransten Gallery. (Thanks RR!)
Aline Kominsky Crumb's book Need More Love is available Feb 14 with an appearance at ADAM BAUMGOLD GALLERY on Feb 15 and exhibition running til March 17.
Posted on the Fantagraphics blog - "FANTAGRAPHICS 1976 - 2006" at the Society of Illustrators in New York. Over 100 pieces of art by dozens of artists including you-know-who thru October 21.
Masters of American Comics will be at The Jewish Museum and The Newark Museum from September 15 to Jan. 28. Crumb's art will be at the former.
Start making plans to see "R. Crumb and Friends" at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco Mar 17–Jul 1, 2007. "YBCA welcomes home local treasure R. Crumb with an eclectic exhibit of early solo work, collaborations old and new, and the world premiere of his latest “spool” drawings." (Click on Visual Arts / future for more info).
An interesting cover design for this American Splendor collection published in Japan.
Crumb is one of many artists included in Private Stash published by Buenaventura Press .
Terry Zwigoff discusses the re-issue of the Crumb film here.
Crumb is one of several artists interviewed in Todd Hignite's book In the Studio : Visits with Contemporary Cartoonists
The long out of print limited edition of The Sweeter Side of R. Crumb will be re-issued by M Q Publications in September. (Thanks Russell!)
According to the crumbproducts newsletter: "German publisher Taschen will release a fairly large book entitled "R Crumb's Sex Obsessions" early next year."
The Crumb DVD will be re-released on April 25 with a new cover and audio commentary by Terry Zwigoff and Roger Ebert. (What happened to all the deleted footage?)
There's a review of The R. Crumb Handbook in the April 6 issue of The New York Review of Books. Only a year late.
JUST A REMINDER: Keep checking the new links atThomas Andersson's site for the latest CD's and other Crumb goodies.
The Crumbs are back in this week's New Yorker (Feb. 13-20) with a three page color story about a recent visit to New York - "Walkin' in a Winta Wunda Land".
Al Goldstein interviews Crumb on the DVD collection Midnight Blue Volume 3 .
The cover of Mr. Natural 2 is the latest print from Crumb Products.
Crumb is one of the artists in the group show Speak: Nine Cartoonists at Pratt Manhattan Gallery. Opening reception: 6-8 p.m., January 19, 2006.
From the press release:
"NEW YORK, N.Y., December 20, 2005 Pratt Manhattan Gallery will present an
exhibition that celebrates the current golden age of North American comics
titled Speak: Nine Cartoonists from January 20 through February 25. The
exhibition and opening are free and open to the public.
The diverse group of comic book artists represented will include Ivan
Brunetti, Charles Burns, Daniel Clowes, Robert Crumb, Jaime Hernandez, Gary
Panter, Seth, Art Spiegelman, and Chris Ware. The exhibition will feature
preliminary doodles and sketchbooks; finished artwork for major sustained
sequences; complete stories; covers; and printed comic books." (Thanks to Russell for the tip!)
R. and Aline are back in this week's New Yorker with a three page color strip "Saving Face".
Meanwhile the Masters of American Comics exhibit has opened at Hammer Museum and MOCA . The massive catalog is now available.
Crumb's Yum Yum Book has been re-issued by the French publisher Denoel.
Crumb, David B & Jochen Gerner - 4 June - 16 July 2005 were at
Gallery Anne Barrault in Paris. Four placemat drawings from the show can be seen here.
The Whitechapel show A Chronicle of Modern Times moves to Rotterdam at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen - June 8 2005 to September 4 2005.
There will be a solo show at Matthew Marks Gallery in New York in November. POSTPONED UNTIL SPRING 2006 .
Crumb is one of 15 artists included in MASTERS OF AMERICAN COMICS
at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles - Nov 20 to March 13, 2006. Featuring an extensive selection of over 500 original drawings.
There's a 40 minute interview with Crumb on NPR's Fresh Air program.
In the latest issue of Interview Magazine there's a new portrait of Aline, and Stella McCartney talks to Crumb about their t-shirt collaboration.
Also - a short interview and color photo of Crumb are in the April 7 issue of Rolling Stone .
The April issue of Artforum magazine has a full page review of last year's Köln Museum show.
Of course everyone is eagerly awaiting the publication of The R. Crumb Handbook which was launched in Britain recently with a great deal of fanfare. If you have deep pockets there's the deluxe limited edition . An exhibition opens April 1 at Whitechapel in London. Next month Crumb will be speaking at the New York Public Library . And a few days later Aline and co-author of the Handbook Pete Poplaski will be at a NY Barnes and Noble.
The Best of American Splendor was recently published by
Ballantine Books with a new Crumb cover.
AT LAST - another issue of Zap arrives, from Last Gasp of course.
In the Jan 3 issue of the New Yorker: "Aline & Bob on Human Depravity or 'Me and George'". Another three page color strip.
ALSO - coming in March from M Q Publications: The R. Crumb Handbook
with "much new work" according to Publisher's Marketplace and Egon.
AND...get ready for the WEIRDO PARTY KIT coming soon from Party Partners (thanks to carolinastew).
FINALLY! Another
New Yorker Crumb cover. And what a beauty it is!
CRUMB appearances - One of the events at the recent New Yorker Festival was the "R. Crumb and Aline Kominksy-Crumb talk with Fran�oise Mouly" on October 2 at the Knitting Factory.
Crumb was also at the opening of the Carnegie International on October 9. For details and links to articles and comments go to the CJ boards.
A two-part audio segment on Crumb and his music is archived on NPR's The World page see HERE and HERE .
A news item on Egon about the Fantagraphics panel at SPX on Oct 2 states that the long delayed Volume 17 in The Complete Crumb Comics series will be the last (sort of)!
Not exactly new...another history of undergrounds has been published: Comix- The Underground Revolution by Dez Skinn editor of the publication Comics International. (Note- the cover shown on Amazon differs from the cover I have seen.
Crumb will be a featured speaker (via videotape) at a trade fair:
Entertainment Media Expo.
Why, you might ask, would he be involved with this? The answer is here.
The September issue of Art News will include a profile of Crumb.
Look for a Crumb book titled
"The Definitive Record Collection" from Drawn and Quarterly in October.
Dale Steinberger is the latest print published by
Wildwood Serigraphs . This is their 12th and comes with a Crumb designed Certificate of Authenticity.
Look for another strip by R & Aline in this week's New Yorker:"The Crumbs go to Cannes". (Thanks to Mr. Sack.)
McSweeneys Issue 13 has arrived with a new 2 page color Crumb strip: "The Unbearable Tediousness of Being". This 300 page collection of comics is a gorgeous production and a MUST HAVE item!
There's an unpublished color Crumb / Pekar strip here. Click on "view American Splendor exclusive".
R. Crumb: Conversations - a collection of interviews will be published June 2004 by
University Press of Mississippi.
The March 22 issue of The New Yorker has a three page color strip by Robert & Aline: "Creeping Global Villagism".
HERE'S ONE THAT SLIPPED BY: The November 21, 2003 issue of Entertainment Weekly had a full page color strip by Harvey Pekar and Crumb.
McSweeney's next issue (#13) is edited by Chris Ware and will include a host of comic artists including Crumb.
The cover of Jazzman magazine # 99 (February) reprints the classic Harmonica Blues drawing.
The Drunken Landlady is the title of Fiddlin Ian McCamy's latest CD with gorgeous cover art by Crumb.
Illustration House has a pair of early Crumb sketchbooks in their Autumn Premier Auction on November 15. See lot 42.
Heroes of the Blues - a series of 6 CD's from Shout Factory are now available. Four reprint Crumb's artwork from the trading card set of the same name on the covers.
Also - Mr Natural - the first of the mini-statues from Bowen Designs arrives in stores (or your mailbox) this week.
There are quite a few new drawings and sketches at the Crumbproducts site. Some new photos too!
American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar a new volume combining the first two A.S. anthologies with an introduction by Crumb is due momentarily from Ballantine Books.
Two beautiful picture disc records are available from Paris Jazz Corner Productions.
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EXHIBITIONS PAST PRESENT & FUTURE:
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June 29, 2004
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November 12, 2003
October 28, 2003
August 30, 2003
Happy Birthday Mr. Crumb!
July 30, 2003
July 25, 2003
June 10, 2003
The Comics Journal Volume 3 will be a collection of Crumb interviews - scheduled for October from Fantagraphics.
March 29, 2003
THIS JUST IN...There's an 8 page feature in the Sunday New York Times Magazine (March 30): "The Muse" - drawings of Aline modeling various fashions and a brief interview with Crumb (Thanks to Mr. Sack for the tip!).
An exhibit of Crumb's restaurant placemat drawings will open at the Dan Weinberg Gallery in Los angeles on April 26. More details later.
Art & Beauty # 2 and a new smaller edition of # 1 will be out soon from Fantagraphics. Also TITS, ASS & REAL ESTATE by Eve Gilbert has an introduction by Crumb.
WORTH MENTIONING: Phoebe Gloeckner's THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL: An Account in Words and Pictures has a previously unpublished Crumb sketch from the Seventies.
ONE THAT ALMOST GOT AWAY! There was a full page color painting of Bigfoot in October 2002 25th anniversary issue of Outside Magazine. Back issues may still be available.
February 13, 2003
Gotta Have'em: Portraits of Women by R. Crumb is due in April from Greybull Press and art book distributor DAP . There will be a trade edition of 5000 copies priced at $55 retail and a limited edition of 100 that includes a 4 color silkscreen signed by Crumb. DAP also carries copies of the Eye Infection exhibition catalog, for you completists out there.
Amazon is taking advance orders for Complete Crumb Volume 17 with what may or may not be the final cover art .
January 16, 2003
Cocktail D'Amour by Les Primitifs du Futur has been re-issued on CD. (Thanks to Eric Benveniste!)
January 13, 2003
The January issue of Fate Magazine has a color cover by Mr. Crumb. The third for this magazine.
December 13, 2002
Robert Crumb's Sweet Shellac is the title of the radio program on BBC3 Saturday December 14. (Thanks to Robert Harkin for the tip!)
November 26, 2002
The Lines On Paper Comic Book Appreciation Society has a couple of sketches by Crumb and dozens of other artists. (Check out the mugs and t-shirts.)
October 6, 2002
There are several pages of artwork currently being auctioned by Heritage Comics: the cover and story from R. Crumb's Comics and Stories #1 , cover of Arcade #1 , the 3-page story "Backwater Blues" , and a single page from Hup 2 . Get those bids in!
October 5, 2002
Who's Afraid of Robert Crumb? - Cartoons and Drawings" is the title of an exhibit at New York's Paul Morris Gallery . Opening night is October 12th and the show runs through November 9th.
August 28, 2002
DIE VIELEN GESICHTER DES ROBERT CRUMB is the title of an exhibit at the Karikaturmuseum in Krems, Austria from September 29, 2002 through February 16, 2003.
The Complete Crumb Comics Volume 16 is due shortly. Here's the cover:
June 27, 2002
This September Fantagraphics will be publishing Rebel Visions: The Underground Comix Revolution 1967-1972 by Patrick Rosenkranz, a 240 page hardcover history with interviews, photos and previously unpublished art by all the major players.
June 13, 2002
A new portrait of B.B. King appears on the latest print from Wildwood Serigraphs . This edition of 240 is signed by BOTH Crumb and King! To order see contact information below.
May 30, 2002
A double shot from Fantagraphics: look for Mystic Funnies 3 and Sketchbook Volume 9 this September.
April 1, 2002
Last Gasp will be re-issuing the long out of print Texas Crude by Ken Weaver any day now.
There will be another Zap calendar for 2003 scheduled for June from Ronnie Sellars Productions.
The second Comics Journal Special Edition for Summer 2002 will include more new art by Crumb and many others. Look for the great cover by Jim Woodring .
March 6, 2002
The March issue of Artforum features a Crumb cover and review of last year's group show "Eye Infection" at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
OLD NEWS-OLD NEWS-OLD NEWS-OLD NEWS
2001
December 11, 2001
The classic cover to Head Comix is now available as an 18-color print limited to 200 signed and numbered copies. Available from Wildwood Serigraphs .
November 16, 2001
Creem magazine is back with Crumb's Boy Howdy mascot soon available on t-shirts and panties!
November 7, 2001
Crumb is featured in the exhibit Eye Infection at Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum. An article about Crumb's involvement (I think) is here.
November 6, 2001
Look for new comics by Crumb and a host of other great artists in the Comics Journal Winter 2002 Special due in December. Meanwhile, The Complete Crumb Volume 15 is now at your local comic shoppe.
The cover of Mineshaft #7 can be seen at Thomas Andersson's site .
August 23, 2001
�yvind Fahlstr�m's "Meatball Curtain" sculpture will be making a rare appearance at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art . The piece was inspired by Crumb's work and the story Meatball in Zap # 0.
August 16, 2001
The August 20 & 27 issue of The New Yorker has a full page color drawing of the Weems String Band!(Thanks to Mr. E.F. Sack for the tip.)
July 2, 2001
There's a new silkscreen of the classic Fritz the Cat book cover. Contact Wildwood Serigraphs at 1-800-662-9453 or write to 100 South Baldwin Street, Madison, Wi. 53703.
June 7, 2001
Legal Action Comics is the title of a 256 page collection of comics by over 70 artists including Crumb, Art Spiegelman and Robert Williams. This is a benefit book for artist Danny Hellman's legal defense fund, due in August.
Coming in October: Kitchen Kut-Outs! a set of 12 thick magnets from those busy lads at Dark Horse Comics.
May 1, 2001
The Zap Comix 2002 Wall Calendar should be available this Summer from Ronnie Sellers Productions with covers by all your favorite Zap artists!
April 27, 2001
The Cheap Suit Serenaders are back! See them at Berkeley's Freight and Salvage Coffee House on May 5th.
Mr. Crumb etc. - Undergroundcomix in den USA und Deutschland is the title of an exhibition at the Stadt Bibliothek in K�ln, Germany from April 24 to June 2. (Thanks, Nik!)
March 31, 2001
Look for a sequel to ART & BEAUTY this Summer from Fantagraphics.
There's a new CD Accord�ons au F�minin with Crumb cover, of course. You can order a copy from FNAC . (Thanks, Thomas!)
If you find yourself in Paris before October be sure to visit the Crumb show at Musee de L'Erotisme. (Thanks, Eric!)
January 26, 2001
WOW!!
The Girls of R Crumb: Catholic School Girl statue produced by by Jesse Crumb and Bowen Designs is due in April. Better reserve one NOW!
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