Holm,D.K.
The
Pocket Essential
Robert
Crumb. Herts,
UK: Pocket Essentials, 2005.
160pp. ISBN 1-904048-51-X (paper). orig: Herts, UK: Pocket Essentials,
2003. 96 pp. ISBN:
1-904048-23-4
(paper).
- Introduction: Who
Reads R. Crumb? ... 9
- Out of the Past: Influences on Crumb
(Pieter
Bruegel, George Cruikshank, James Gilray), The Lure of Comic Books
(Carl Barks, E.C. Segar, Marge, Walt Kelly, Harvey Kurtzman), Crumb:
The Consumate Cartoonist and Writer
- The Genesis of a
Future Genius (1943-1964)
... 31
- Crumb Family Comics, Your Vigor for Life
Appalls Me: Robert Crumb Letters, 1958-1977, The Yum Yum Book
- The Bitter Years of
Early Struggle
(1965-1970) ... 46
- 'Mr. Natural in Death Valley,' 'Dirty Dog,'
'Lenore Goldberg and Her Girl Commandos,' 'Joe Blow,' 'It's Really Too
Bad'
- Life on the Farm:
Brutal Years of Breakdown
and Defeat (1971-1979) ... 64
- 'Bo Bo Bolinski: He's the No. 1 Human
Zero,'
'and 'A Gurl,' 'Pete the Plumber,' 'Fritz the Cat, "Superstar,"'
'Whiteman Meets Big Foot,' 'Singing in the Bathtub,' R, Crumb and the
Cheap Suit Serenaders
- Retreat to Realism
(1980-1993) ... 81
- 'Excerpts from Boswell's London Journal,
1762-1763,' 'Psychopathia Sexualis,' The 'Devil Girl' Series, 'The
Confessions of Robert Crumb,' 'R. Crumb,m "The Old Outsider," 'Goes to
the ... Academy Awards,' 'When the Niggers Take Over America'
- Post-Crumb, The Later
Years of Fruitful
Harvest (1994-2003) ... 111
- Art & Beauty, The R. Crumb Coffee
Table Art Book, 'Bad Karma,' 'From Cradle to Grave'
- The Latest
Confessions: An Interview with
Robert Crumb ... 140
- Reference Materials
... 153