Category Archive for 'Robert Crumb'

R. I. P. Harvey Pekar

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/12/harvey-pekar-who-chronicled-ordinary-lives-in-american-splendor-comics-dies/?src=me Harvey Pekar, one of my all-time favorite comics writers died yesterday. He was 70. I first learned about Harvey from a valued penpal of mine, Marty Pahls, in the early ’80s. I was a struggling small press comics creator at the time and Marty was a key figure in my development as a writer [...]

I know how you feel, Mr. Crumb.

Saturday, February 26th, 2005

[The panels above originally appeared in the story "I'm Grateful! I'm Grateful!", which appeared in WEIRDO MAGAZINE in 1989. It's copyright Robert Crumb of course.] I’ve been spending the day here in the “home office” here in southeast Minneapolis. I’m getting the same level of satisfaction out of this that Crumb gets from hanging out [...]