Current Tonight | November 07, 2008 | 26 comments

Who is R. Crumb? What are underground comix?

source: http://www.zubeworld.com/crumbmuseum/charac.html

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Robert Dennis Crumb, better known as R. Crumb led a group of illustrators and cartoonists that began the Underground Comix movement of the late 60's and early 70s. During a time of 'protest' of the Viet Nam War along with the Hippy Movenment and the Drug Culture, R.Crumb became famous with characters like Mr. Natural, The Big Baby, and Shuman the Human.

Were these comics a lead into the drug culture of the time? What happened capsulated in iconoclastic cartoon heroes that gave us a snapshot into what Free Love, and Anti-War were all about in the 60's and into the 70's as well?

Or was it all just a drug induced haze that guided these illustrators into a 'trip' of their own choosing? These comics came at a time of The Beatles, LSD, Hippy Counter Culture, and led down a road to Charles Manson flowered along the way by Timothy Leary!

Like Mini-skirts, motor cycles, surf-boards, and flower children... the art of R. Crumb and his follwers were a sign of the times.
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