Hard Cover. MQ Publications 2006. In MINT condition Book condition: M - Mint. Part Colour illustrations. A companion volume to the phenomenally successful 'The R. Crumb Handbook'. Watch the old man mellow out as Hippy Bob contemplates the finer things in life, poetry, and nature� but can those famous Crumb women be far behind? This is a mass-market edition of the highly sought after limited edition The Sweeter Side of Crumb and is sure to delight his legions of admirers. Features drawings of his wife and daughter plus rural scenes from his home in Southern France and his beloved pre-war Blues musicians. 96 pages. Size: 8" x 11" (200mm x 273mm). ISBN: 1846011140. (1.5 SSORC).

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Title

The Sweeter Side of R. Crumb

Publisher

MQ Publications

Publication Date

2006

Language

English

ISBN 10

1846011140

ISBN 13

9781846011146

Binding

Hardback

Condition

As New

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This exclusive collection of haunting images of people and places reveals the tender side of R. Crumb, a 1960s counter culture artist who broke into the fine art world with great acclaim.

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As Crumb admits in his introduction, sweet isn't what his work seems to be. Furthermore, he opines in so many words, sweetness is for gals. So, is this album of one-panel and one-page comics and many freestanding drawings somehow "Crumb for the ladies"? Well, none of Crumb's trademark raunch is on view; the closest he comes is a reminiscence of his then-preschooler daughter's curiosity about "poop." But Crumb remains in love with carnality. What he draws has weight, and what he admires he draws even heavier. Surely the girl-jock high-school classmates he lovingly recalls didn't have legs quite that massive; they were teenagers, after all. Such drawing doesn't have much of the delicacy considered especially appealing to women. It does have particularity (does this guy know shading or what?), which gives each portrait of an old or (seldom) new entertainer, each view of a favorite forest pathway, each rendering of a fantastic bit of French medieval architecture, visual tangibility. And it has affection, which is sweet, no? But not just for ladies. Ray Olson
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