When the San Francisco Chronicle canceled Zippy briefly in 2002, the newspaper received thousands of letters of protest, including one from Robert Crumb, who called Zippy " by far the very best daily comic strip that exists in America.

* Robert Crumb, underground artist who lived in Dover from 1959 – 1961

" Robert Crumb ’ s cartooning style has drawn on the work of cartoon artists from earlier generations, including Billy De Beck ( Barney Google ), C. E.

Giving evidence at the trial, one of the defendants said of Crumb: " He is the most outstanding, certainly the most interesting, artist to appear from the underground, and this ( Dirty Dog ) is Rabelaisian satire of a very high order.

Crumb has frequently drawn comics about his musical interests in blues, country, bluegrass, cajun, French Bal-musette, jazz, big band and swing music from the 1920s and 30's, and they also heavily influenced the soundtrack choices for his band mate Zwigoff's 1994 Crumb documentary.

Crumb has also released CDs anthologizing old original performances gleaned from collectible 78 RPM phonograph records.

The actual caller was his brother-in-law Alex, who moved to France from New York and deals in R. Crumb prints.

Underground rap artist Aesop Rock mentions Crumb several times in his lyrics, including in the songs " Catacomb Kids " from the album None Shall Pass and " Nickel Plated Pockets " from his EP Daylight.

With Jack Kirby, Will Eisner, Harvey Kurtzman, Gary Panter, and Chris Ware, Crumb was among the artists honored in the exhibition " Masters of American Comics " at the Jewish Museum in New York City, New York, from September 16, 2006 to January 28, 2007.

Although his scores and recordings sell steadily, Crumb has earned his living primarily from teaching.

They have worked with many minimalist composers including John Adams, Arvo Pärt, George Crumb, Henryk Górecki, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Terry Riley, and Kevin Volans ; collaborators hail from a diversity of countries -- Kaija Saariaho from Finland, Pēteris Vasks from Latvia, Franghiz Ali-Zadeh from Azerbaijan, and Osvaldo Golijov from Argentina.

Spiegelman, Gelman and Brown also hired freelance artists from the underground comix movement, including Bill Griffith and Kim Deitch and Robert Crumb.

This included an eight-day festival at the Arts Theatre in Great Newport Street in 1991 which featured performers Simon Limbrick and the Norwegian cellist, Øystein Birkeland, and composers ranging from Paul Kellett ( The Birth of Liquid Desires 2 " eight minutes of wildness " for 13 cellos ) to the George Crumb.

In 1985, Dream Garden Press released a special 10th Anniversary edition of the book featuring illustrations by R. Crumb, plus a chapter titled " Seldom Seen at Home " that had been deleted from the original edition.

10th Anniversary edition ( 1985 ) from Dream Garden Press, with illustrations by Robert Crumb

Detective Crumb sometimes joined Gary, Chuck and Marissa after retiring from the police force and works at McGinty's as a part-time bartender.

Several characters from the anthropomorphic universe of Fritz the Cat appeared in another Crumb comic strip, The Silly Pigeons, drawn in 1965 and intended for Help!

Bakshi and Crumb were unable reach an agreement after two weeks of negotiations but Krantz secured the film rights from Crumb's wife, Dana, who had a power of attorney.

* The R. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book, Edited and designed by Peter Poplaski, 1997, Little Brown and Company, ISBN 0-316-16306-6

Crumb's son, David Crumb, is a successful composer and, since 1997, assistant professor at the University of Oregon.

* Crumb Duck with Stereolab ( 1993 ), Clawfist, edition of 1450 ( expanded reissue on United Dairies, 1997 )

Glass " ( 1973 ); " An Impression by Arp " ( 1974 ) for guitar and 5 instruments ; " An Impression by Crumb " ( 1975 ) for guitar and chamber ensemble ; " Song for David " ( 1974 ); " Song on a text by Rick Meyers " ( 1976 ) baritone and guitar ; A Fantasy-Homage to Tomas Luis de Victoria ( 1977 ); " Guitar Concerto " ( 1976 ) for guitar and orchestra ; " Dance Book " ( 1997 ); " Variations on a Danish Folk Song " ( 2010 ) for guitar and piano ;

As artistic advisor of the Prime Foundation Groningen he was involved between 1990 and 2002 in organizing festivals around internationally renowned composers such as Morton Feldman ( 1991 ), John Cage ( 1992 ), Dieter Schnebel ( 1993 ), Christian Wolff ( 1994 ), Luc Ferrari ( 1995 ), Henry Brant ( 1997 ), George Crumb ( 2000 ) and Wolfgang Rihm ( 2001 ).

The introduction of the Cookie Crook was followed by another new character: Officer Crumb ( 1982 – 1997 ).

Despite starting as a sidekick, Chip soon began getting larger parts in the ads, until finally, in 1997, he took over as the main mascot for the cereal, and the Cookie Crook and Officer Crumb were dropped altogether.

" Rothschild concluded that, " Even though Fritz the Cat is a classic, there are better, more coherent Crumb books around.

In the early 1980s, Crumb collaborated with writer Charles Bukowski on a series of comic books, featuring Crumb's art and Bukowski's writing.

Crumb was born in Charleston, West Virginia, and began to compose at an early age.

He first gained recognition in the 1960s, and in the early 1970s George Crumb wrote his books of piano pieces Makrokosmos for him.

In early 2002, Burge and Crumb were appointed to a joint residency at Arizona State University.

Labeled " Fair Warning: For Adult Intellectuals Only ", it featured the publishing debut of Crumb's much-bootlegged " Keep on Truckin '" imagery, an early appearance of unreliable holy man Mr. Natural and his neurotic disciple Flakey Foont, and the first of innumerable self-caricatures ( in which Crumb calls himself " a raving lunatic ", and " one of the world's last great medieval thinkers ").

Fritz appeared in the early 1960s Animal Town strips drawn by Charles and Robert Crumb.

In 1970, Crumb redrew an early Fuzzy the Bunny story written by Charles Crumb in 1952 ; it was published in Zap Comix # 5.

Vasks ' early style owed much to the aleatoric experiments of Witold Lutosławski, Krzysztof Penderecki and George Crumb.

" Vaughn Bodé was the founding editor, with early issues featuring work by Bodé, Crumb, Deitch, Robbins, Rodriguez, Spiegelman, Joel Beck, Roger Brand, Ron Haydock, Jay Lynch, Larry Hama, Michael Kaluta, George Metzger, Ralph Reese, Steve Stiles, S. Clay Wilson, Bernie Wrightson and Bhob Stewart ( who became Gothic Blimp Works second editor ).

He was an early contributor to Zap Comix, and Wilson's artistic audacity has been cited by R. Crumb as a liberating source of inspiration for Crumb's own work.

Also released in 1992, The Comics Journal Interview CD ( Fantagraphics, 2002 ): Contains 15-20 minute audio excerpts with five of the most influential cartoonists in the American comics industry: Charles Schulz, Jack Kirby, Walt Kelly ( interviewed by Gil Kane in 1969 ) and R. Crumb.

Starobin's major projects as record producer include Bridge's ongoing complete George Crumb Edition, begun in 1982 with a recording made by mezzo-soprano, Jan DeGaetani and pianist Gilbert Kalish ( BDG 2002, LP ).

Mr. Crumb was laid up with a bad cold.

" Zap Comix " was among the original underground comics, and featured the work of Robert Crumb, S. Clay Wilson, Victor Moscoso, Rick Griffin, and Robert Williams among others.

While continuing to play supporting roles in films like Spaceballs, Candy was awarded the opportunity to headline or co-star in such comedy films as Volunteers ; Planes, Trains and Automobiles ; Brewster's Millions ; The Great Outdoors ; Armed and Dangerous ; Who's Harry Crumb ?, Summer Rental, and Uncle Buck.

Crumb was a founder of the underground comix movement and is regarded as its most prominent figure.

Robert Crumb was born on August 30, 1943 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

A peer in the underground comics field, Victor Moscoso, commented about his first impression of Crumb's work, in the mid-1960s, before meeting Crumb in person: " I couldn't tell if it was an old man drawing young, or a young man drawing old.

After issues 0 and 1 of Zap, Crumb began working with others, of whom the first was S. Clay Wilson.

Crumb said, about when he first saw Wilson's work " The content was something like I'd never seen before, ... a nightmare vision of hell-on-earth ...." And " Suddenly my own work seemed insipid ...."

Directed by Johnny Simons, and co-starring Avner Eisenberg and Nicholas de Wolff, the development of the play was supervised by Crumb, who also served as set designer, drawing larger-than-life representations of some of his most famous characters all over the floors and walls of the set.

Crumb was the leader of the band R. Crumb & His Cheap Suit Serenaders, for which he sang lead vocals, wrote several songs and played banjo and other instruments.

In 1992 and 1993, Robert Crumb was involved in a project by a Dutch formation, The Beau Hunks, and for both their albums " The Beau Hunks play the original Laurel & Hardy music "

In the 2003 movie American Splendor Crumb was portrayed by James Urbaniak.

However, it was not Robert Crumb who contacted the Howard Stern Show.

The word was subsequently used in the work of Zap Comix underground cartoonists, Robert Crumb, Rick Griffin, Victor Moscoso, S. Clay Wilson, " Spain " Rodriguez, Robert Williams in 1975.

was the apparent inspiration for the titles of two other books: Eat It: A Cookbook by Dana Crumb and Grow It!

Bagge sent copies of Comical Funnies to underground comics legend Robert Crumb, who liked his work enough to publish a few of Bagge's strips in the anthology Crumb was editing, Weirdo.

His 1999 recording of Star-Child, by George Crumb, was voted Best Classical Contemporary Composition at the 43rd Grammy Awards in 2001.

In 1972 when Crumb was visiting him in Cleveland, Pekar showed him his story ideas.

As Pekar was not an artist himself, and was incapable of " drawing a straight line ", according to a line in the film version of his story, he recruited his friend, underground comics artist Robert Crumb, to help create a comics series.