Robert Crumb

Person · Open Library

Works

207

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Film & TV

Acting · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Robert Dennis Crumb (born August 30, 1943)—known as Robert Crumb and R. Crumb—is an American artist, illustrator, and musician recognized for the distinctive style of his drawings and his critical, satirical, subversive view of the American mainstream. Crumb was a founder of the underground comix movement and is regarded as its most prominent figure.…

Known for

• Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse — Self2025
• Married to Comics — Self2023
• The Final Adventure of Kaktus Kid — Himself2018
• Sex in the Comix — Self2012
• Trashman: The Art of Spain Rodriguez — Self2012
• Chelsea on the Rocks — Self2008
• Midnight Blue, Vol. 3: Celebrities Edition — Self (archive footage)2006
• Crumb — Self1995
• Eurotrash1993
• Gorgon Video Magazine Vol. 2 — Self1990

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Country

France

Active from

1943

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

1,109

Total plays

15,183

Robert Dennis Crumb (born August 30, 1943), often credited simply as R. Crumb, is an American artist and illustrator recognized for the distinctive style of his drawings and his critical, satirical, subversive view of the American mainstream. He currently lives in France. Crumb is an avid collector of 78 rpm phonograph records; he has over 5000 records as of 2004. A selection of 24 songs from his collection called Gay Life in Dikanka: R. Crumb's Old-Time Favorites was issued on CD in 2000 by th

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Academic profile · OpenAlex

Works

3

Cited by

4

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density

   · 1988 · cited 94,860x

2. Hallmarks of Cancer: The Next Generation

   · 2011 · cited 55,816x

3. Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support

   · 2009 · cited 45,419x

4. Regression Shrinkage and Selection Via the Lasso

   · 1996 · cited 38,849x

5. The PHQ-9

   · 2001 · cited 38,226x

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Music

Quotes

• “What we kids didn't understand was that we were living in a commercial, commodity culture. Everything in our environment had been bought and sold. As middle class Americans, we basically grew up on a movie set. The conscious values that are pushed are only part of the picture. The medium itself plays a much bigger part than anyone realizes: the creation of illusion. We are living surrounded by illusion, by professionally created fairy tales. We barely have contact with the real world.”
• “People have no idea of the sources for my work. I didn't invent anything; It's all there in the culture; it's not a big mystery. I just combine my personal experience with classic cartoon stereotypes.”
• “As a matter of survival I've created this anti-hero alter-ego, a guy in an ill-fitting suit—part humunculus and part clown. Yep, that's me alright … I could never relate to heroes. I have no interest in drawing heroic characters. It's not my thing, man. I'm more inclined toward the sordid underbelly of life. I find it more interesting to draw grotesque, lurid, or absurd pictures, and I especially enjoy depicting my fevered sexual obsessions.”
• “My work has a strong negative element. I have my own inner demons to deal with. Drawing is a way for me to articulate things inside myself that I can't otherwise grasp. What I don't want to do, what I dread more than anything, is to leave a legacy of crap. I don't want my work to be tossed in the dustbin of history, and become more of the second rate, mediocre junk that future connoisseurs will have to move out of the way so they can get at the good stuff.”
• “Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.”
• “When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate.”

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Wikidata facts

Official website

www.rcrumb.com

Image

Robert Crumb, 2014 (cropped).JPG

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