Robert Crumb, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Robert Crumb

American illustrator and cartoonist

Date of Birth: 30-Aug-1943

Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Profession: writer, musician, comics artist, cartoonist, journalist, novelist, banjoist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Robert Crumb

  • Robert Dennis Crumb (; born August 30, 1943) is an American cartoonist and musician who often signs his work R.
  • Crumb.
  • His work displays a nostalgia for American folk culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and satire of contemporary American culture. Crumb is a prolific artist and contributed to many of the seminal works of the underground comix movement in the 1960s, including being a founder of the first successful underground comix publication, Zap Comix, contributing to all 16 issues.
  • He was additionally contributing to the East Village Other and many other publications, including a variety of one-off and anthology comics.
  • During this time, inspired by psychedelics and cartoons from the 1920s and 1930s, he introduced a wide variety of characters that became extremely popular, including countercultural icons Fritz the Cat and Mr.
  • Natural, and the images from his Keep on Truckin' strip.
  • Sexual themes abounded in all these projects, often shading into scatological and pornographic comics.
  • In the mid-1970s, he contributed to the Arcade anthology; following the decline of the underground, he moved towards biographical and autobiographical subjects while refining his drawing style, a heavily crosshatched pen-and-ink style inspired by late 19th- and early 20th-century cartooning.
  • Much of his work appeared in a magazine he founded, Weirdo (1981–1993), which was one of the most prominent publications of the alternative comics era.
  • As his career progressed, his comic work became more autobiographical. In 1991, Crumb was inducted into the comic book industry's Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame.
  • He is married to cartoonist Aline Kominsky-Crumb, with whom he has frequently collaborated.
  • Their daughter Sophie Crumb has also followed a cartooning career.

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