![]() ![]() He does like plenty of famous artists, though, including Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, and W.C. They shouldn’t have let him do his shtick so much in that film … could have been a great movie but Sellers f***ed it up.’” I think he was highly overrated in his day … I think he really spoiled Lolita. But his later stuff, he gets more cranky as he gets older. Mark Twain: “ Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn don’t do that much for me. I was much more dazzled by her than any girl in the movies.” I wasn’t impressed with women in movies as I was with the big legged girl who sat next to me in my homeroom class, Joanne Plunk. Silver-screen bombshells: “ didn’t attract me as much as the girls in my high school class. I love the movie Amedeus about him, but the actual music, nnnaaaah.” I haven’t really close attention to Mozart’s music. Mozart: "The music just doesn’t do much for me. Here are a few of his takes on some highly celebrated artists: HIS OPINION ON MOZART, SCREEN VIXENS, AND PETER SELLERS? “OVERRATED.”Ī compiled list of some of Crumb’s thoughts on famous figures-targeting everyone from cinema legends to recent politicians-reveals that it can take a lot to impress this cartoonist (unless you’re his female classmate from high school). He won’t do work for bands he doesn’t like, though-the Rolling Stones included. He created the latter as a “work for hire” in one night for just $600, and told Rolling Stone he enjoyed working with Big Brother singer Janis Joplin: "Janis used to come around, smoke pot, talk about the comics … She was nice." For several other album cover jobs, he has happily accepted payment in vintage records. ![]() HE PLAYS BANJO AND UKULELE IN TWO OLD-TIMEY BANDS. In 2007, the couple appeared onstage together as part of a Valentine’s Day event at the New York Public Library, where Aline continued the story, noting that they “first met at a party at Robert's girlfriend's house, and he told me that I had ‘cute knees.’” 2. Crumb for his Snatch Comics series” who bore a striking resemblance to Kominsky. Crumb and Aline Kominsky-Crumb “met in 1971 after she heard about a large-rumped woman named Honeybunch Kaminski created by Mr. The New York Times explained that cartoonists R. ![]() HE DREW A VERSION OF HIS WIFE BEFORE THEY EVER MET (WHICH IS HOW THEY GOT TOGETHER). In honor of the publicity-shirking cartoonist’s 72nd birthday, you might do well to plunge even deeper into Crumb’s squirrely, squiggly world to discover some lesser-known facts about the guy who brought underground comics into the anxious, sweaty mainstream. Crumb) likes his women ample, his art nonconformist, and his bitterness self-referential. Natural-type, or simply enjoy the odd perusal of his finely illustrated realm of sexual obsessions, you might know that Robert Crumb (a.k.a. Whether you’re a dedicated Fritz the Cat fan, more of a Mr. ![]()
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