Robert Crumb
Robert Crumb
Robert Dennis Crumbis 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth30 August 1943
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
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Some things I won't do for any amount of money. Like for instance, there's a couple of CEOs of very large corporations that offered me lots of money to do special pictures for them. And I just refused to do that. Even if it was a million dollars I wouldn't do it.
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In the fall of 1968, I became attractive to women. One day I was an ignored schlub in the street, then suddenly all these good-looking women were interested in me.
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If I didn't draw comics I was a worthless human being. It was tedious labor, so I worked fast to get it over with.
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If you're trying to work the art game, if you're like Andy Warhol or something, then you're in with cake-eaters of society. You want to get in with them and please them and get their money.
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In my midteens I went through a brief stage of religious fanaticism, but it was very much about just saying prayers and stuff like that, reciting rosaries and spending a lot of time on that kind of Catholic ritual.
You don't have to be a Fundamentalist Christian to be interested in the Bible. It's really a fascinating mythology.
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I do covers for CDs and LPs of music that I like, reissues of old-time music, and then I'm inspired to make some kind of drawing based on this love of the music. I don't do album covers or CD covers for groups or musicians I don't like or have no interest in.
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Drawing is a way for me to articulate things inside myself that I can't otherwise grasp.
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I still can't spend a lot of money on records at collector prices. There's something in me that just won't allow me to do that. But I will trade my artwork, which I know is worth thousands of dollars.
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The comics are where all the crazy subconscious stuff comes out.
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Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America.
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The only burning passion I'm sure I have is the passion for sex.
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I don't do album covers or CD covers for groups or musicians I don't like or have no interest in.
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I guess I didn't enjoy drawing very much. It was like homework.