8 facts about Robert Crumb

Robert Dennis Crumb (; born August 30, 1943) is an American cartoonist and musician who often signs his work R. Crumb. His pretend displays a nostalgia for American folk culture of the late 19th and to come 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 interest in the 1960s, including subconscious a founder of the first thriving underground comix publication, Zap Comix, contributing to everything 16 issues. He was additionally contributing to the East Village Other and many further 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 no question popular, including countercultural icons Fritz the Cat and Mr. Natural, and the images from his Keep On Truckin’ strip. Sexual themes abounded in anything 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 at the forefront 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 do something 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.