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U-Comix / Heft-Reihe
Comic Strips für Erwachsene
cover: Marcel Gotlib
Reprints from Fluide Glacial (Audie, 1975 series) #99 / Frankreich
Verlag: Volksverlag (Linden / Deutschland; 1984)
ex libris MTP
Display of my Vignettes at the Vienna Comix - Thx a lot to the LGOE-Team for taking part with my two vignettes!
American Apparel Men's Extra-Large tee shirt with a design derived from an original print from the most celebrated – and the most imitated of the Zap Comix pantheon.
If you know the Crumb canon, you know these have never been published. See my story below.
Drawn in New York City on a Visit to Geo. DiCaprio and Me, a pair of charming Crumb crustaceans -- comix art in miniature form.
The ART WORK was made originally as a silkscreen for a giant decalcomonia –remember those? Like a fake tattoo. You used to be able to wet them and slide off the image onto your skin. Same concept, except the decal was designed to be dipped in a big pail of water and slide off the backing paper to be applied to the side of a van.
Except I saved this one. And kept it in a frame. The ripples are the backing paper. It was a kind of heavy duty butcher paper with a smooth side the image was printed to. The medium was a kind of vinyl ink.
The original was also used to make tee-shirts (red on white). I have the original, pictured with a watermark, and it's not for sale. This tee-shirt is a new design of those tee-shirts.
Item specifics
"CRUMBy Lobster w text" American Apparel T-Shirt (Fitted), White, Adult XL by R U CRUMBy & Fitch Designs
Item Specifics
Genre : Alternative, Underground p>
Publisher : R U CRUMBy & Fitch DesignsGrade: PRISTINE
Medium : American Apparel Men's Extra-Large tee shirt
⇒ Robert Crumb original art
⇒ reproduced on a tee shirt
⇒ never been published
⇒ outrageous graphics
⇒ one of a kind
OK, so there's a story behind this piece. Back in 1975, we were all living in a loft in the West Village – my college chum George DiCaprio and his wife Irmalin and their little 1-year-old Leo, my two cabdriving buddies Doug and Scott, and me. It was a communal situation, each of us with his own corner of the huge former industrial space. George was the guru of our intellectual cadre, based as it was on things subterranean and artistic. The intersection of William Burroughs, William Shakespeare and William Blake with a little bit of Tim Leary thrown in. George was already active in the comix subculture that would one day become his full-time job. He'd already put out the first issue of Greaser, a New York answer to the Bay-area graphic tomes that were all the rage.
I remember it was a hot New York summer when we got a 2-week visit from Robert Crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders sideckick Robert Armstrong, illustrator-maven of Mickey Rat. My buddy Scott gave up his room for the visiting royalty and Crumb expressed his appreciation by making a couple of illustrations that Scottie could use for his lobster clambake business out on Long Island. He did wind up using one of these, the man eating the lobster, as the logo for the outfit. I designed a silkscreen press and we made up tee shirts with the image that all the workers wore as they brought this big step van around to Hamptons estates doing their mobile catering thing.
I also made up a huge silkscreen decal that we plastered to the side of this step van. I still have one of these in a frame after all these years. And I have the original transfers from Crumb's pen-and-ink drawings on plain paper, which we used to make the silkscreen masters. Those silkscreen frames are long gone but I kept the master prints used to make 'em in a cellophane envelope all these years in my zippered loose-leaf journal. There are two of them – two the world – and they are not for sale.
So that's my story, that's how I came to be in possession of these two charming Crumb crustaceans.
U-Comix / Heft-Reihe
Comic Strips für Erwachsene
cover: Bill Griffith
> Superludwig fährt Metro! (art: Frank Margarin)
Reprints from Métal Hurlant (Les Humanoïdes Associés, 1975 series) #51 (Mai 1980) / Frankreich
> The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers
(art: Gilbert Shelton, Dave Sheridan, Paul Mavrides)
Reprints from The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers (Rip Off Press, 1971 series) #7 (1982) / USA
> Man hat’s nicht leicht… (art: Édika)
Reprints from Fluide Glacial (Audie, 1975 series) #54 / Frankreich
> Zippy: Lachen ist Trumpf
(art: Bill Griffith)
Reprints from Reprint from Yow (Last Gasp, 1978 series) #1 / USA
> Gib mir Knete, Margarete! (art: Miguel Gallardo)
Reprints from El Víbora (Ediciones La Cúpula, 1979 series) #3 / Spanien
Verlag: Volksverlag (Linden / Deutschland; 1983)
ex libris MTP
U-Comix / Heft-Reihe
Comic Strips für Erwachsene
cover: Marcel Gotlib
Reprints from Fluide Glacial (Audie, 1975 series) #23 / Frankreich
Volksverlag (Linden / Deutschland; 1981)
ex libris MTP
So on Saturday I went to Comix Con in Flint. Met a lot of nice, if obscure, comics artists and bought a few issues of stuff.
Also got this sweet poster drawn by Randy Zimmerman
U-Comix / Heft-Reihe
Comic Strips für Erwachsene
cover: Schlunze
Verlag: alpha-comic Verlag (Nürnberg / Deutschland; 1989)
ex libris MTP
a drawing i did for my show with raph banks, still for sale if any body wants it, it's a4 and with pens and stuff.
U-Comix / Heft-Reihe
Comic Strips für Erwachsene
cover: Gilbert Shelton
Volksverlag (Linden / Deutschland; 1981)
ex libris MTP
U-Comix / Heft-Reihe
Comic Strips für Erwachsene
cover: Lobo
Verlag: alpha-comic Verlag (Nürnberg / Deutschland; 1990)
ex libris MTP