Robert Crumb

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Robert Dennis Crumb born August 30 1943known as Robert Crumb and R Crumbis an American artist illustrator and musician recognized for the distinctive style of his drawings and his critical satirical subversive view of the American mainstream Crumb was a founder of the underground comix movement and is regarded as its most prominent figure Though one of the most celebrated of comic book artists Crumbs entire career has unfolded outside the mainstream comic book publishing industry One of his most recognized works is the Keep on Truckin comic which became a widely distributed fixture of pop culture in the 1970s Others are the characters Devil Girl Fritz the Cat and Mr Natural He was inducted into the comic book industrys Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1991 Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Crumb licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia