Crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders music inspired by Crumb’s work or albums that feature Crumb’s artwork on the cover, including Big Brother and the Holding Company’s “Cheap Thrills” album. The compact discs and LPs are either musical contributions by Crumb’s band, R. The VHS tapes are copies of the film, Crumb, produced by Terry Zwigoff, and the contact prints include images of Crumb and his wife, Aline. There are also compact discs, VHS tapes, contact prints, and LP records. In addition, there are a number of assorted items - a testament to the varied and erratic interests of Crumb - including a box of Devil Girl chocolates, a bottle of “snake oil,” a bicycle wheel patch kit, rubber stamps, figurines and statuettes, and t-shirts depicting Crumb’s characters and artwork. Included in the collection are trading cards that Crumb created for the Topps Chewing Gum Company in 1965 as well as card packs he created with Yazoo Records, a company that used those images on many of the LP records also included in the collection. In 1984, Crumb moved to the south of France with his second wife, Aline Kominsky Crumb.ĭanowski and Martin also collected a variety of memorabilia. Several years later, Crumb’s friend Terry Zwigoff produced the documentary film Crumb, which received an Oscar nomination. In the 1980s, he created the magazine Weirdo to feature other graphic artists outside of the mainstream. While he is probably most known for his “Keep Truckin'” comics, other popular characters include Mr. In 1967, he left Cleveland, for San Francisco, California, and became involved with the counterculture whose members gravitated to his work. While Crumb developed his comics career outside of the mainstream comic publishing industry, he began his work in art as an illustrator for American Greeting Corporation in 1962, taking a job in Cleveland, Ohio after high school. He was one of the five children of Charles and Beatrice Crumb. Crumb) is the most prominent member of the underground comic book genre, or “comix,” and is usually referred to as one of the “fathers” of the movement.Ĭrumb was born on Augin Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Crumb material is a new addition to the manuscripts at MARBL and has recently been fully processed. The Raymond Danowski and John Martin collection of R.
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