Crumb interview
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Alex: How about Bukowski? Do you think he did that?
Crumb: Uh-uh. No. Bukowski appealed to a certain kind of woman. Some type of crazy women. But, I don't think he set out to be seductive to women. Not at all. He was as surprised as anybody that his writing started to get him laid by attractive women after he began to acquire some fame.
I don't know about that.
I think just about every letter Bukowski wrote to a woman was meant to be seductive. That's just the feeling I get from reading his letters to women vs. those to men. I've commented on it before around here somewhere. Maybe that's just me reading something into them, but I think the difference is quite noticeable.
Bukfan
"The law is wrong; I am right"
I don't think Crumb ever read Bukowski's letters to women or even knew him that well. I think Crumb sees Bukowski like he sees himself, as a guy who did'nt have much luck with women till he became famous, but without knowing much about Bukowski's actual life.
there are a couple of Crumb-items in the upcoming PBA-auction.
(#219, #243, #244, #245, #297, #299)
(#219, #243, #244, #245, #297, #299)
that "stoned again" original art just sold for $690,000! - i remember seeing a poster of it at the CNE in the 70's and being
freaked out by it.
https://www.ha.com/heritage-auction...es-to-auction-for-first-time.s?releaseId=3739
freaked out by it.
https://www.ha.com/heritage-auction...es-to-auction-for-first-time.s?releaseId=3739
Wow!
I wonder how much of that cash went to Crumb.
Bukfan
"The law is wrong; I am right"
New Crumb interview. Notice the photos of the Trump doll full of needles hanging outside Crumb´s house in France. ?
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.pr...7j7u0V5Q0sB4BS1dgfHs6eiEIg-3rcvzpR2POiGMnNr84
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.pr...7j7u0V5Q0sB4BS1dgfHs6eiEIg-3rcvzpR2POiGMnNr84
Now this is odd.
I wanted to see what that village Crumb lives in looks like, so I fired up Google Maps' Street View and look who I found
(in the very first street I visited there!):
It couldn't be Crumb (I reckon he would have jumped in the river to avoid being photographed), but this guy is skinny, wears a large shirt, old pants, sandals with socks on, not to mention the trademark hat...
Perhaps he influenced the villagers sothey all some of them dress like him?
P.S. In the Haaretz interview I read this:
I wanted to see what that village Crumb lives in looks like, so I fired up Google Maps' Street View and look who I found
(in the very first street I visited there!):
It couldn't be Crumb (I reckon he would have jumped in the river to avoid being photographed), but this guy is skinny, wears a large shirt, old pants, sandals with socks on, not to mention the trademark hat...
Perhaps he influenced the villagers so
P.S. In the Haaretz interview I read this:
Now I'm pretty sure that's Robert, Aline and Sophie with her children in those Street View pictures.
Thanks for posting the cool Crumb interview. I recently finished writing my book R. Crumb: Literature, Autobiography and the Quest for Self, due out in February 2021 from U. Press of Mississippi for any of you Crumb fans. I have a chapter discussing Crumb's Bukowski drawings. Here is the cover.
Book Review: ‘Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life,’ by Dan Nadel
R. Crumb’s underground comics were instrumental in shaping the counterculture of the 1960s and beyond, Dan Nadel shows in an exemplary new biography.
Robert Crumb returns with TALES OF PARANOIA
Fantagraphics will publish the influential and controversial cartoonist's first new work in 23 years this November.
www.comicsbeat.com
