Artistic Comics
Artistic Comics
Golden Gate Publishing Company
About The Artist • Dismal World of R. Crumb • Artist and his Muse
Sketches and noodlings from Robert Crumb’s “secret” sketchbooks. Historically important only because Crumb’s original art can sometimes command six figures at auction nowadays. Some of it is interesting, but most of it, including the drawing quality, is sub-par compared to Crumb’s usual standards. Of course, I recognize that these are sketchbook cartoons that were not originally intended for publication, but I’m not grading on a different scale just for that reason. Besides, a lot of Crumb’s later sketchbooks feature some really fine work