The R. Crumb Handbook
Still truckin’: “The R. Crumb Handbook,” a memoir, was published this month.
BoingBoing and The New York Times Book Review have the skinny on the release of this new book, and details of a rare public appearance by R. Crumb himself!
But in a rare public appearance on Thursday night at the New York Public Library, Mr. Crumb took the stage with one of the more famous cake eaters in the art world, the critic Robert Hughes, who has compared Mr. Crumb not only to Bruegel but also to Goya, one of Mr. Hughes’s favorite artists and the subject of his latest book. In 1994 Mr. Hughes appeared as a talking head, a kind of lone voice from the establishment art world, in Terry Zwigoff’s hit documentary “Crumb,” but until Thursday night, the two men had never met. Introduced as “two very naughty boys” before a sold-out crowd, they made an odd couple.
Tags: aesthetics, books, Comics, Ephemera, Low Art, R. Crumb