Heated with a wood-burning stove, Crumb’s home is a colorful preserve of vintage quilts, antique toys, kitsch souvenirs and folk art. Crumb’s detractors often accuse him of being overly enamored with the past, and the house which he shares with his wife of 12 years, cartoonist Aline Kominsky Crumb, and their 7-year-old daughter, Sophie, is a virtual museum of Americana. I wasn’t too good at selling it either-I kept saying the wrong things to these studio people.Ĭrumb’s appearance may be a surprise, but the way he lives is exactly as one might expect. It’s a humorous, sex, burlesque story and it’s pretty weird. It’s based on a comic I did years ago about this wimpy guy who falls in love with a female sasquatch (huge, hairy creatures said to live in the mountains of North America), and gets abducted in the woods. “Me and a friend of mine, Terry Zwigoff, wrote this script and took it to Hollywood and pitched it to different studios,” he recalls, “and while the studio people seemed to find me an amusing character, the script was way too offbeat for the Hollywood machine. Considering that Crumb probably hasn’t sat through a mainstream Hollywood feature in years, it’s surprising that he applied himself to the task of writing a script that this defiant iconoclast didn’t get too far in Hollywood is less of a surprise. The virulent dislike of mass media that surfaces in nearly every strip he draws didn’t stop him from having a go-round with the film industry. Well, for one thing, he surfaced in Hollywood last year. Though Crumb experienced- endured is how he would describe it-a period of high-profile celebrityhood when he burst onto the scene, he has since removed himself from the media compost pile to the point that many who know of his work wonder: Whatever happened to R. In real life, however, the notoriously reclusive artist prefers to interact with his fellow man from a distance. 'Keep on Trucking'?' ZYX Comics (Kitchen Sink Press, June 1972).Crumb, whose cartoons currently are published in the quarterly magazines Weirdo and Hup, is afflicted with a compulsion to confess, and in his work he invites the reader into his psyche. Crumb Handbook by Robert Crumb and Peter Poplaski (2005), p. ^ Guevin, Jennifer (28 December 2005).Archived from the original on 1 March 2001. ^ 'Sony Classics website for ROBERT CRUMB'.The judge who hated red nail polish : & other crazy but true stories of law & lawyers (1st ed.). 'How Robert Crumb almost lost Keep On Truckin'. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. The strip was covered in copyright symbols, and ended with an ironic suggestion that readers buy 'Keep on Shuckin' merchandise. In 1972, Crumb published a one-page self-parody of Keep on Truckin', which introduced a variety of new poses and slogans, including 'Keep on Rollin' Along,' 'Keep on Chunkin',' 'Keep on Toodlin',' and on and on. In 1977, the Ninth Circuit Court reversed that decision, and it returned to copyrighted status. Sales' request for summary judgment and Keep On Truckin' became public domain. The drawing had appeared on the business card of Crumb's publisher without the copyright symbol. The work was covered under the 1909 Copyright Act, and any omission of notice caused the work to be public domain. Sales claimed the work was in the public domain, because Crumb had not included the copyright symbol on the work, although he had in Zap #1 as a whole. Federal Court, and wound up in the courtroom of Judge Albert Charles Wollenberg, who had previously ruled against the Air Pirates. continued to sell unlicensed products after the settlement without paying additional license fees. Sales, a producer of unlicensed Keep On Truckin' merchandise, reached a settlement of $750 for the past usage. In the early 1970s, Crumb's lawyer started threatening lawsuits against anyone using the image without permission. The copyright on this image has been repeatedly violated, and it has been widely reproduced on T-shirts, posters, belt buckles, mudflaps, and other items.
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