The postcard is a real treasure. Thanks for this today.

The thing I have always loved about Robert Crumb was his complete honesty. He always expressed what he felt, regardless of whether or not it would offend anyone. That is the essence of art.

Crumb is the greatest artist of the Underground Era of comics. Thanks for this video.

Mr. NATURAL. All love for R.Crumb. Thank you for doing this. Inspiring.

wow your postcard is awesome. definitely a prized possession

The best sketchbook club video so far for me. R Crumb - an unsung genius. He gives so much of himself and draws beautifully to illustrate his complex personality. The Crumb movie is wonderful but also dark - his brothers were seriously damaged individuals but Robert's love for them shines through.

Really cool stuff. I recall his work back in the 70's when I was a kid. I thought that his stuff was phenomenal. The Vietnam vets from across the street had lots of the underground mags. I'm not mush of an artist, but I remember trying to draw like him. In fact it was really the only time that I actually tried to draw, because of his work.

his hand writing is perfect. That note is a work of art. Ive met him, He's very nice

I just learned of Crumb earlier this week. I have watched the Crumb documentary 2 times and just about every interview I can find with Crumb. Such a fascinating and amazingly skilled artist. Very tortured but it just makes him even more interesting.

A post card from R Crumb, your hero, our hero... just WOW!!!👍👍👍😻

Thank you Danny - what a lovely personal account of a cartooning artist hero, Mr Robert Crumb. To see various collections is hugely informative to any artist or collector, especially the more obscure publishers. And of Crumb the artist, he was prolific and driven in a way that was in part, a man seeking truth but more realistically commercial viability and it is the mash up of these worlds that, for me, are so interesting. Finally, to see how Danny is touched by Crumbs artistic technique reminds me of the various Mad comic artists I used to religiously follow and copy...something I had forgotten, but now in 2022 as we face a world of such insincerity and uncertainty it is perhaps salient that we should all rediscover that which we can truly lose ourselves - for the sake of sanity. Subscribed!

Thanks so much for sharing. The documentary Crumb is a must-see!

more energy than i can think about right now....

The Sweeter Side… is a book I regularly return to. He’s certainly done work I don’t connect with or agree with but as a craftsperson, he’s objectively one of the best. One thing you notice in the Crumb film is when he’s working in a sketchbook, he doesn’t seem to rough anything out first, just goes ahead with ink so as you flipped through these books, I wondered just how many were just done straight on the page. I’d bet the vast majority which makes the work all the more impressive

Fascinated by Crumb and his life, thank you for sharing this video. Loved seeing this!

I stumbled onto your channel early this morning. I'm watching videos on sketchbooks getting inspired to return to drawing. And I just bought Crumb's Sketchbook vol 1 thanks to your suggestion.

I love this series. I often come back and watch them again so thank you for doing this. 🤗

One of my favorite movies is “crumb”. I really like seeing him draw.

This was really really great, ty Danny; been obsessed with Crumb since I was a child, just turned 50 myself and hope to be the late bloomer artist I always dreamed I might be

The Crumb film, Terry Zwigoff the director says it was filmed over the course of eight ears and was shelved midway through, crazy to think. You would not be able to tell from the way it flows. I love your videos Danny. And your book "An Illustrated Life" has impacted my life positively in a significant way. I thank you for your continuing plethra of content that you and sketchbook skool put out. I hope you and your family are staying safe and are hopefully well during these times.

Wow! Fascinating. Thank you. I guess everyone knows Crumb as the 'comic book' artist but who knew that he could draw - really draw, identifiable people? Now there is a skill that some would kill for (so to speak!). What an artist. Thank you for this little article.

Yeah, I've always been impressed and / or obsessed with the output of R. Crumb. Very much enjoyed this video, and you have a new subscriber.

THank you for sharing with us your knowledge

Thank you for this. I just recently reunited with Crumbs work. In my youth I watched the movie Crumb. I remember I was deeply intrigued by his art, but I had been so offend. My young self was a rebel constantly looking for a cause. Anyhoo, I matured. I can see the offense and see the lines. And I have learned life is offensive. Hahaha. But thank you for this. I can't decide what book to buy but I'm sure it'll be one of sketchbook. Probably waiting for food.thats my kind of stuff.

Fantastic vid on Crumb... I've been a fan of his for many years and he really influenced me in many ways. You have a deep understanding of Crumb and his work. Good job.

Bowie and Crumb are literally in my top 5 most influential artists on my own artistic journey. Great video and series. Wishing you well!

Leyendecker, Rockwell, Elvgren, Kurtzman, Frazetta, Aragones, Drucker, Mingo, Jaffee, Crumb, Martin, Berg, Davis, Friedman and so many more, all gave us a delightful taste of American popular culture, as much as Hollywood movies and Detroit autos. Each one a master craftsman and consummate story teller.

Thank you! I start to draw much more since I start to watch Sketchbook Club. Thank you for your videos :)

Robert Crumb, in my opinion, is the greatest pen and ink artist to date. To say the least.

Got a box (somewhere) of Crumbs ZAP comics. Read my first one in 69' or 70' and got hooked. His work inspired (hee hee) me to do my own comic while in art school. (was told it was too far underground, made its way amongst my friends and never saw it again). Really enjoyed this, made me smile.....thanks. 😂

After so long of studying and admiring Crumb's work, I find myself seeing the world as though through his comic depictions. Probably the least likely to appreciate admiration, but he is a hero non-the-less.

Just wow!

Love hearing you talk about Robert Crumb.

19:01 oh my goodness, how wonderful

Thanks for your effort in a worthy cause! In recent Crumb "interviews", he acknowledges his "isms"! but doesn't "regret" any of them....see the interviews...!

Thank you SO MUCH for sharing this!

Best video ever! I too, have been inspired by Robert Crumb. Love the story about the postcard. Thank you for sharing. I saw the movie “Crumb“, but you added so much more I didn’t know about. Great video!

This is a wonderful overview, Danny. Many thanks. Hopefully, your video will motivate a few young people to learn more about this incredible artist.

great video, thank you for sharing this with us. i'll definitely get a crumb book soon

Wow, you went to school with Eric Drooker? I have his book of Ginsberg’s Howl. I have loved Crumbs style since I first saw it. His life and philosophies are a bit hard to swallow, so I don’t even try. I was living in Portland Oregon a number of years ago and they had the drawings from Genesis on display at the art museum. Incredible. If I could be 1/4 the artist he is, I would be doing well.

Crumb was not a biggot or hated woman he just drew what he saw at the time. Remember in his time love, sex and rock was the anthem of that generation

Beautiful

Love your videos. I’ve watched this one a few times. I appreciate how candidly you speak. So many videos are edited into paste, it’s nice to have some free flowing dialogue.

"Taschen" is such a great thing to have happened to the artworld. Lots of great stuff

Love the fact that he sent you a hand-written postcard!

I quite enjoyed this look at the work of Robert Crumb. To be honest, some of his depictions of women and people of colour give me pause, but the fact that he’s a very talented artist is undeniable. I admire his work ethic too. I’ve seen the Zwigoff documentary twice. Fascinating, disturbing, very candid, and a lot of sadness there, too (esp. where Crumb’s older brother, Charles, is concerned). But R Crumb’s trajectory shows how important art can be in helping to give someone a healthy outlet for potentially overwhelming thoughts and emotions. I’d like to get my hands on that Book of Genesis and the Taschen volume someday. Thanks for sharing his sketchbooks, and for this closer look at his work.

Thinking about purchasing some for a minute now. Bro. You're rough on those beautiful books. Haha, sorry but had to say so. Great info thank you.

I was introduced to R Crumb when I was 21 in 1987 and loved the grittiness of his drawings and sketches. I had forgotten about him for a while and recently looked him up. I was also quite ''surprised'' to see the drawings and depictions through my adult eyes and in the much bigger scope of the internet. He was certainly of his time and perhaps had some rather bizarre ideas, thoughts and possibly some ''issues''. But what a great artist and the drawings are so free. I hope that our very repressed current society doesn't strangle all the creativity out of us in the name of ''social acceptance''.

R crumbs Kafka is a book i hold near and dear. His saucy work is fascinating but I agree his sense of line and cross hatching is sublime

Good one, Danny. Thanks for the tip on the Taschen volume.

I admire everything about him

Very interesting. My dad collected a lot of the underground comics, and have some still, I wasn’t so much a fan of Crumb growing up as I was more into the superhero art. I’ve seen all the books you showed, but never bought any of them, mostly because of cost, and also saw his doco. I have gained more appreciation of his art since. An interesting character to be sure,

I discovered Crumb in the early seventies when the local record store evolved into a head shop I'm a fan but everytime I picked one up I felt like I was crawling into a pile of dirty laundry.

And in many ways he's been a hero to us as well. Nodody, it seems, captured the counter-culture of the late '60's and early '70's as well as R.Crumb. He's an actuall icon for that age. Like every good teacher subtly reflecting back on us what we were going through, what we were learning, ourselves. His work is didactic but genuine. I think it was in Zap#7 that I was first introduced to the underground comic scene and Crumb's work. ''Mr. Natural meets the Kid.'' He was the Carl Bark's of our age. Although he might find it embarrasing we are indebted to him for holding a magnifying glass up to our lives. ''The King is dead. Long live the King.'' Peace. NFA.

Great video Danny

Just getting in to crumb. Enjoyed your video. I see your book on Amazon. I'll pick it up when I get a chance. I also like Sophie's work. I draw a bit myself. I use the erase method I keep erasing till it looks good. Don't think I could ever draw with ink.

Well, let’s see your book. I drew cartoons in junior high and high school and after my dad sent me to Iceland I never saw them again. Thanks for posting your thoughts.

Danny, I believe Crumb traded a small suit case of his sketch books for his house in France.

Thanks for this!

Classic film ...I own Genesis book and a Blues and country book in colour with cd ..still have a vhs copy of the film which I copied some art work as the case was blank I can't throw it even though I have the DVD. . Ok first watched it back in the mid 90s . I have watched it again quite a few times I would have loved to have seen more of Charles art work . I am glad to hear Mr Crumb is still alive and well in France . I believe his son is a good artist as well . ...it must of been exciting to get the postcard ... what a treasure...

Awesome stuff here. Digging those sketchbooks!!! Wishing now I'd kept all my sketches!! LOL That "Keep On Trucking" image was probably one of his most nationally recognized images back in the seventies. (it had been around some in the sixties...but gained renewed popularity again after a very cool song ("Keep On Trucking") by Eddie Kendricks hit the radio waves). Oddly enough: as Crump liked the twenties era: I'm thinking he might have had the dance called "Trucking" in mind when he originally created that image. His underground comics got him known mostly in the "Hippie" crowd in the sixties....but they eventually became known world-wide. That "melting face" image is a favorite of one of my friends who was a "real life Hippie" in San Francisco in the sixties. Every now and then if he's pining away for the sixties and remembering LSD etc.....he'll send me that image. It was a time and place for sure.....and so many things meshed to create that vibe......Crumb's art was part of it. I get a kick out of how good the guy is at using "perspective" in his commics........you can almost "Feel" that speck on the horizon he is working from. Peace & Love ~~RED ☮♡♫ .

A great tribute. I had no idea RC's body of work was so huge.

Ah, you floated over my favorite piece of Crumb: Footsie. By the way, your style of turning pages with your left thumb near the center leaves dings in the pages. I have a friend who goes through my books the same way, and after dinging every single page in my book, I point it out to him, and his attitude is to snear. But the dings are still there.

The Criterion Collection Edition of 'CRUMB' has some art work in the booklet. I highly recommend it to folks.

Eric Drooker is still an amazing artist to this day!

Crumb also did a long serious comic about the SF writer Philip K. Dick.

Crumb! His crazy self. Saw that video of him squeezing his wife's Thigh. Love his art and that old music he listens to.

No, Danny, you had no reason, or at least no legitimate reason to feel that your presentation of Crumb was inadequate in any way. Many years ago I had several copies of his comic books which someone stole from me. That collection is one of the few things I've lost over the decades which gives me deep regret. One can bear many things but that loss still cuts deep. Anyway, thanks for your sensitive exposition, and for being the candid, often self effacing sweetie that you are. Oh, and thanks for your instruction.

Man was he prolific. Where was the time to do all that work? And although he wasn't a Renaissance master, he was damn good technically. Thanks for sharing.

Danny--is there any footage (I think the documentary may have some) of Crumb drawing?

I was reading undergrounds from about age 13. To my mom they were just comic books, and by the 70s a lot of parents had come around to thinking that if kids were reading comics at least they were reading. I was reading The National Lampoon too.

he had a unique style being first gives you the advantage

Thanks, Crumb was always the best for me, but it never occurred to me to collect as fine art. (Which it was)...

Thank you.

Crumb's sketches of Bulgaria, really remind me of the art of L S Lowrey. Though while Lowrey's characters are largely anorexic and Crumb's tend towards the obese, the overall feeling of people in an industrial landscape is similar. It is the landscape of my early years as I was brought up in the post-war industrial north of England.. Indeed in the same city that Lowrie depicted.

Remember paying twenty-five cents to fifty cents for my first batch of underground comix in SanFransisco

I've got Volume 1 & 2 of the Taschen sketchbooks.

I was very interested in his sons work shown in the film. I actually preferred his drawings when they were making comparisons. He really wasnt doing drawings that his dad should overly critisize. The subtle differences could even just be personal preference.

Interesting thing is though Crumbs graphics are quite personal you can make out the French and the Americans in many drawings : his personal graphics also convey the personalities and culture of characters … That's how you can recognize a great artist.

What is the music used here? Month Python used it in the 70s in the animated sketch Brian Islam And Brucie.

I think most things in his work that might come off as repulsive are broadly speaking, satirical. I think he's playing with stereotypes and the attitudes of certain people, some of which he may have as well in which case he's questioning/examining his own attitudes prejudices, proclivities, etc. Which is what all artists should be doing yet few have the balls to go out and do it.

The cover image 9:19 looks like Schlitzie, a lesser known actor.

I got all six volumes of Crumb's sketchbooks from Fantagraphics.

Devil Girl 🍫 at Crumb Theater opening!

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I just bought his first 3 volumes of sketchbooks per this video - was that the intent :-) Regardless, what a beautiful artist!

What did crumb use for his colors?

The weirdest thing about the Crumb documentary wasn’t Robert Crumb. The weirdest thing about the Crumb documentary was realizing that Robert wasn’t the crazy one in his family… he was actually the normal one 😳

I always liked the way he drew women. 👍👍

TRUELY , A GREAT ARTIST . . .

there is an earlier documentary about Crumb that is not as sensational as the Zwigoff one, still of course it was very interesting and I would recommend any Crumb fan to view it Its called The Confessions of Robert Crumb

Does anyone know what type of pens Crumb preferred?

Didn't crumb do the cartoons for the movie Ghostworld? The ones that were used in the main character's sketchbook.

Crumb was filmed over 6 years time

Good presentation of Crumb's work. A small correction: around 12:02 you say that the 'Waiting for Food' book is of drawings he did on placemats while waiting for food in restaurants in California, whereas they were done in three restaurants in Sauve, the village in France where he lives

Crumb is a genius

Where can I see your sketches?

How did you send you’re book to him?

crumb is a lot like us; just more truthful .

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