- Paperback: 96 pages
- Publisher: Kamera Books; 2nd Revised edition edition (7 Jan 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 190404851X
- ISBN-13: 978-1904048510
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.9 x 1.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,080,522 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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To be published in the year of his 60th birthday comes the first book-length critical study of Robert Crumb, covering all of his cross-cultural endeavours in comics, music and film.Every significant Crumb comic and story is examined, from the early Yum Yum Book to 2002's From Cradle to Grave. Also included is an exclusive interview with Robert Crumb himself. New and updated edition.
About the Author
D. K. Holm has written for Willamette Week, PDXS, among other publications, and now has columns at Kevin Smith's MoviePoopShoot.com. He edited an anthology of Robert Crumb interviews for the University of Mississippi Press and has a forthcoming book on Guy Maddin. He is the author of PEs on Quentin Tarantino and Robert Crumb.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Whet my Appetite for More
20 Jan 2004
Format:Paperback
I can't imagine a better book for becoming acquainted with one of our national treasures. I'd read others of the Pocket Essentials series, and this is one of the best. For those looking for fully-illustrated narratives, they'd best look elsewhere. But bang-for-the-buck'ers (like me) are well served. Especially liked the interview.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Essentially Crumb
11 Feb 2004
Format:Paperback
Reading about this notoriously "sexist" and "racist" comic book artist, I was gratified by Holm's unpacking of these controversies in terse prose, while supplying abundant facts in fleshing out Crumb's work and fascinating story. This thin paperback gets a lot covered and defends Crumb's artistic and life choices without suffering from sycophantic dribbling. Bravo!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Just a mouthful (but that's better than nothing)
24 Mar 2008
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
It amazes (and dismays) me that there's no serious secondary work on the art of R. Crumb. He's one of the most important artistic voices to come out of late twentieth-century America. His satiric comix offer social criticism, invite us to rethink sexual and racial taboos, and delight us with their skillful and beautiful artwork. Crumb's influence on a whole generation of artists, literati, musicians, cultural commentators, and ordinary guys like me is undisputed. Yet the scholars insist on ignoring him, and this is bothersome.
That's why D.K. Holm's little book is refreshing, even though inadequate. It's relatively up to date, appearing merely five years ago, and ends with a 2002 interview with Crumb (which is also reprinted in Holm's R. Crumb: Conversations, University of Mississippi Press). Moreover, the book provides a decent overview of Crumb's life and career, although curiously the biographical chapters get thinner as the book progresses and Crumb ages; you'd think just the opposite ought to happen. Finally, Holm offers pretty good synopses of some of Crumb's most pivotal work, including (somewhat uncritical) evaluations of it. Along the way, Holm briefly discusses some of the influences on Crumb, a few of the themes in his work, and the phases his work has gone through: from greeting card stuff to the LSD-inspired breakthrough to the years of despair, to the move toward realism to the latest (although only mentioned) "mystic" stage.
All this is to the good, and Holm is to be thanked. But it's all too brief, too impressionistic, too sketchy. What we really need is someone (Robert Hughes, perhaps?) either to put together a collection of critical essays on Crumb the artist/thinker/iconoclast, or to write a booklength critical examination of him. But until that time comes, Holm's little book is at least something.
That's why D.K. Holm's little book is refreshing, even though inadequate. It's relatively up to date, appearing merely five years ago, and ends with a 2002 interview with Crumb (which is also reprinted in Holm's R. Crumb: Conversations, University of Mississippi Press). Moreover, the book provides a decent overview of Crumb's life and career, although curiously the biographical chapters get thinner as the book progresses and Crumb ages; you'd think just the opposite ought to happen. Finally, Holm offers pretty good synopses of some of Crumb's most pivotal work, including (somewhat uncritical) evaluations of it. Along the way, Holm briefly discusses some of the influences on Crumb, a few of the themes in his work, and the phases his work has gone through: from greeting card stuff to the LSD-inspired breakthrough to the years of despair, to the move toward realism to the latest (although only mentioned) "mystic" stage.
All this is to the good, and Holm is to be thanked. But it's all too brief, too impressionistic, too sketchy. What we really need is someone (Robert Hughes, perhaps?) either to put together a collection of critical essays on Crumb the artist/thinker/iconoclast, or to write a booklength critical examination of him. But until that time comes, Holm's little book is at least something.
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