adhousebooks.com - 23 days ago
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I don’t know how it happened, but Robert Crumb visited Richmond.
I found out about it many months ago, and I’m sure I’ve mentioned it on the blog already. The event happened last night at the gussied-up Carpenter Center, and I felt it was well attended. I saw both Ed Sizemore ...
thecollegianur.com - 20 days ago
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The Modlin Center’s exhibit of Robert Crumb’s comics
and its sponsorship of his conversation that was held
in association with VCU at the Carpenter Theater on Oct. 27, have garnered heated responses from faculty and students.
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R. Crumb exhibit and conversation spark controversy
comicsworthreading.com - 23 days ago
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by Ben Towle Comics Worth Reading is happy
to feature a two-part guest column by the talented
Ben Towle , author of Midnight Sun and Farewell, Georgia . Part two will run shortly, as will additional coverage of this event by Ed Sizemore. If ...
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R. Crumb w/ Françoise Mouly in Richmond, VA, October 27, ...
sfgate.com - 23 days ago
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Robert - better known as R. - Crumb,
a Philadelphia native who now lives in southern France,
first made his name in late '60s San Francisco with Zap Comix, Fritz the Cat and other "underground comics." They gave pictorial expression to all manner of ...
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Comics star R. Crumb gets serious with Genesis
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Creators | Ben Towle and Chris Pitzer cover an appearance earlier this week in Richmond, Virginia, by R. Crumb and Françoise Mouly. Also, art critic Kenneth Baker provides your Crumb interview of the day. [Comics Worth Reading, AdHouse Books Blog, San Francisco Chronicle] ...
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Events of the Week: Crumb/Mouly in Virginia
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... Chris Pitzer has a report on the talk as well as a panel with Anders Nilsen, Kim Deitch, Hope Larson and Gabrielle Bell that was part of the week’s festivities. ...
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[Profile] R. Crumb
Link: Kenneth Baker
A short Q&A with the The Book of Genesis Illustrated creator. Wait: Sophie’s expecting a baby? I did not know that.
Also: Chris Pitzer and Ben Towle report from the cartoonist’s public appearance last week in Richmond, Virginia; W.W. Norton executive editor Robert Weil discusses editing Crumb with Calvin Reid; and Ed ...
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robot6.comicbookresources.com 27 days ago — R. Crumb takes on Abu Ghraib
Does this make Robert Crumb officially fashionable? The undeground comix legend and author of The Book of Genesis Illustrated is gracing the internet presence of fashion bible W magazine with a gallery titled ...
Pamphleteering: October and probably earlier
warren-peace.blogspot.com 22 days ago — Elsewhere: I reviewed Fantastic Four #572 for Comics Bulletin , and the latest episodes of Dollhouse and The Venture Brothers for The Factual Opinion . I'm prolific! Links, lots of links: This gallery of Robert Crumb pictures of women throughout history is nice, although it seems like a ...
To do tonight: Crumb at UCLA —
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Robert Crumb continues his short tour of the states to talk about his adaptation of GENESIS with an appearance at UCLA tonight, where he’ll be joined by Françoise Mouly . Tickets are $60, unless you’re a UCLA student, in which case they’re a bargain at $18.
UCLA’s ...
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David Zane Mairowitz and Robert Crumb Kafka Fantagraphics B&W;/softcover 176 pages/$14.95 Though they share a superficial interest in the grotesque and neurotic, R. Crumb and Kafka are very different artists. Crumb’s work is confessional, satiric, and expansive — his sexual hang-ups, prejudices, ...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 10/27/2009 —
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Brian Chippendale on MASTER OF KUNG FU is not only an awesome piece of writing but suggests something we never quite put together before, namely that MoKF is to the Prisoner as Monty Python is to the Beatles.
§ Robert Weil talks Crumb at Graphic Novel Reporter:
Was there any talk ...