Crumb is probably the preeminent living cartoonist, but he has a
secondary legacy that stems from his passion for American roots music,
particularly early blues, jazz, and country. He captures his
relationship with his record collection in a typically incisive opening
comic strip, laying out how his collecting mania has become as much a
sickness and a burden as a love of the music itself. The rest of the
book, revised from a limited edition published in 1994, is given over to
a gallery-style presentation of the hundreds of record covers he has
drawn, from Big Brother and the Holding Company's Cheap Thrills in 1968
to the present, and other assorted bits of music-related art created
during the past four decades. What sometimes gets lost under the weight
of the neuroses and fixations that Crumb has never been hesitant to
overshare in his comics is the fact that he's a tremendous natural
artist, and that fact is nowhere more evident than in the portraits of
musical greats scattered throughout these pages, from Lightnin' Hopkins
and Jack Teagarden to Frank Zappa and even a banjo-pluckin' Crumb
himself.(Booklist, copyright 2011, American
Library Association.)
Request
R. Crumb : the Complete Record Cover Collection from the catalog.
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