R CRUMB… (Warning: graphic heavy)

[MrMickeysMom]

Because… I loved that interview I read with him today on DU…

[Heidi]

1. Kick, kick, kick!!!

[WinkyDink]

2. "Keep on truckin'." Another identifier for us Baby Boomers that the "Millennials" don't get.

By which I mean, even though we're in our 60's, WE STILL SAY "KEEP ON TRUCKIN'"! Because we ain't Lawrence Welkians!

[MrMickeysMom]

3. Who's Lawrence Welkian? LOL...

An-a- one-a an-a two-a….

[eShirl]

4. even Lawrence Welkians can surprise you once in a while

[DFW]

5. Best Welk (well, sorta!) episode ever!

[WinkyDink]

7. Haha! Gotta confess: I'm actually a fan! I even know my birthdate is the same as the great Myron

Floren, the accordionist! But it's only because we Boomers grew up watching quite the array of television shows! If our parents watched it, we did, too---who had more than one TV?!

[Brother Buzz]

8. Members of R. Crumb And His Cheap Suit Serenaders LOVE Lawrence Welk reruns...

and one member, the accordion player, will wax poetically on Lawrence's early huckster years. The Saccharin persona Lawrence presented on TV was a total sham.

[WinkyDink]

20. That would be the "Hotsy Totsy Boysss"! :-)

[lark]

6. Keep on Truckin

R. Crumb. You are a visionary and I've loved your cartoons for decades.

[nolabear]

9. Speaking of cartoons and religion, have you seen his Book of Genesis?

It's wonderful. Straight text and pure Crumb illustrations.

[MrMickeysMom]

13. I've only seen a few pages...

… That was enough to make me want to see the rest… You sure can't buy it in the kind of stores I used to go into looking for this stuff, heh?

[bvf]

14. Cartoonist posted on this

a short time back:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/123032980

[nolabear]

25. Honestly, it was very sincere.

Unmistakably Crumb, but on point and without snark.

[NightWatcher]

10. I love his illustrations for Ed Abbey's Monkeywrench Gang

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[Brother Buzz]

11. He showed remarkable restraint with his trademark 'Big Butt'

Dimes to donuts says he would have cut loose with it, but was asked by the editors to dial it back a bit

[MrMickeysMom]

21. Are you kidding….

Every see his Amazon women?

[Brother Buzz]

22. Exactly, you made my point

If Crumb had his druthers, Bonnie Abbzug would have been illustrated as a full blow out 'True Amazon' woman.

I'd post R. Crumb's Ideal Woman: The "True Amazon" drawing but I suspect it would not survive a jury. Google® is your friend.

[MrMickeysMom]

15. OH… never saw that series...

Circa???

[NightWatcher]

23. I think it was 1985. You can still find it new (reprint) for $25

I've one in my bookcase.

Apparently Crumb did a calendar (of pics of characters and scenes) that were later put in order as chapter illustrations.

[MrMickeysMom]

24. Thanks for that.. I'm gonna search and find

[gregcrawford]

28. GREAT book!

"Rudolph The Red knows rain, Dear!"
- George Hayduke

[world wide wally]

12. If you've never sat around getting stoned and reading "The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers...

Do it!
You will thank yourself... As soon.as you can stop laughing.

[MrMickeysMom]

16. You remember what their often stated credo was, www?

[world wide wally]

17. Remind me

I have a good memory, but it is short

[MrMickeysMom]

18. Well, then, you'll appreciate it...

The FFFB's credo they lived by was, "Dope will get you through times with no money better than money will get you through times with no dope!"

[world wide wally]

19. Oh yeah! LoL

No wonder I laughed so much. I wish I had some of those old copies. There must be some still floating around...unless they were all used as rolling papers

[sarge43]

29. Thus sayth Franklin

[MrMickeysMom]

30. Oh, Snappeth!

[sarge43]

33. From on high

[nolabear]

26. I always had a soft spot for Crumb because I was built like his women.

I know about the mysogyny and yet somehow it made me smile to be the object of such unbridled lust. I can handle that.

[MrMickeysMom]

32. You gotta admire that he does characters like that...

He doesn't seem to be interested in anything that wouldn't arouse the senses, anyway.

[deutsey]

27. Here's the larger "A Short History of America"

[MrMickeysMom]

31. Oh, I like this one better...

… as the true comic book can portray.