[skeptik]

Audio interview With Robert Crumb
a rambling talk about music, art, and other stuff with George Kenney of electricpolitics.com

[PenultimateManStanding]

I'm listening to the interview. Crumb is such a mensch. Thanks for posting this. Sounds like he just wants to talk about music. The only comix creator I would put in his league is Gary Larsen.

[PenultimateManStanding]

Bill Watterson and Charles Schultz are not far behind, but they are a little too cute. Watterson is very talented with the pen. Note how Calvin's eyebrows are at the top of his forehead. A minor detail, but very funny.

[oowolf]

Crumb is a great fan of the 19th c. German artist and poet Wilhelm Busch--the inventor of the comic strip. Busch's work is full of violence and frustrated sexuality. There's an anthology of Busch's best work titled "The Genius of Wilhelm Busch: Comedy of Frustration" which I highly recommend. Also a museum dedicated to Busch in Hanover.

www.expatica.com has a good article on Busch dated 9 01 2008.

[skeptik]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', ' ')Thanks for posting this. Sounds like he just wants to talk about music.

[oowolf]

I have all the Cheap Suit Serenaders albums and the 78rpm issue of "Duck's Yas Yas".
http://www.timshome.com/css/default.htm#singles

[PenultimateManStanding]

Shame on you all, this the most interesting topic to come up in a while and nobody has a thing to say. What a bunch of doomer losers.

[drgoodword]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'B')ill Watterson and Charles Schultz are not far behind, but they are a little too cute.

[lys3rg0]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'S')hame on you all, this the most interesting topic to come up in a while and nobody has a thing to say. What a bunch of doomer losers.

[skeptik]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lys3rg0', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'S')hame on you all, this the most interesting topic to come up in a while and nobody has a thing to say. What a bunch of doomer losers.

[PenultimateManStanding]

You know, the more I think about it, Gary Larsen is the bomb! Better than Crumb, even. Look at the eyes on those demons, hysterical.

[oowolf]

Two Larsen screamers I still have tacked to my kitchen wall after more than 20 years: "In God's Kitchen" God pulls a pan containing planet Earth out of oven; thought balloon says: "I think this thing's only half baked." (Box of "Earthquik" sits on counter.)
"In the Garden" Adam and Eve stroll through Eden with numerous animals sitting in trees hawking various fruits: Snake says:"Apples apples apples-you want 'em I got 'em."
Hilarious.

[Eli]

As far as I am concerned Crumb is just a weirdo, and I think that is a badge he wears with honor. He is not necessarily trying to be funny with his cartoons, and of the cartoons of his I have seen they really seem to be an acquired taste, by that I mean they suck.

Larson on the other hand is truly funny.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Eli', 'A')s far as I am concerned Crumb is just a weirdo, and I think that is a badge he wears with honor. He is not necessarily trying to be funny with his cartoons, and of the cartoons of his I have seen they really seem to be an acquired taste, by that I mean they suck.

Larson on the other hand is truly funny.

[PenultimateManStanding]

Not sure how Crumb handled the charges of blatant racism. Maybe that's why he moved to France. Too many brothers threatening to cap his scrawny ass. Of course the whole point of the R. Crumb thing was to plumb the depths of neurosis. Some folks just don't get it. The interchange between Flakey Foont and Mr. Natural was brilliant. Taught me many a lesson about how to seem clever. . .