R crumb artwork12/5/2023 ![]() Volume One (1966-67) cover with “page-keeper” ribbon As far as I’m concerned, only the two Acme Novelty Date-book volumes presenting Chris Ware’s sketchbooks of 1986–2002 come close to presenting an artist’s work in such a personal way. This is a Bible of an artist’s explorations and thought processes all reproduced with as much care, respect, and love, as I’ve ever seen. The end papers display a combed-marble technique the pages are edged in blue and individually numbered with blue numerals as if printed with a rubberstamp the book is supplied with a silk ribbon for keeping your place for future reference and the book opens and stays open easily -evidence of top-notch binding. The production value of this tome is amazing. ![]() by Blue Angel in Charlottesville, Virginia, the book, with a very colorful “HEAD” graphic, also comes with a separate 24-page booklet of all the text translated into German by Harry Rowohlt. Crumb Sketch Book 1966-’67! Published and printed in 1981 by the German company Zweitausendeins and distributed in the U.S. With this gushing sermon in mind, imagine my thrill when about 25 years ago I ran across a hardbound and slipcased book titled R. He’s a gift to all of us who appreciate good old-fashioned, hand-drawn cartoon artwork. and so much of the work was stuff I recognized and had admired for years! I felt like I was being reunited with old friends. The shine of the ink on the paper, the white-out used to correct or revise. ![]() Seeing his original art up close, with all its detail, was a thrill. There was a show recently at the Society of Illustrators in New York City that solidly put a piece of punctuation on all the admiration I have for his artwork and talent. Underground cartoonist, designer, illustrator, “drawer”-they all seem like inadequate titles when attached to his body of work. Robert “R.” Crumb is one of my favorite artists.
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