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

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.

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.

Crumb retired from teaching in 1997, though in early 2002 was appointed with David Burge to a joint residency at Arizona State University.

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.

Robert Dennis Crumb ( born August 30, 1943 )— known as Robert Crumb and R. Crumb — is an American artist, illustrator, and musician recognized for the distinctive style of his drawings and his critical, satirical, subversive view of the American mainstream.

George Crumb ( born October 24, 1929 ) is an American composer of contemporary classical music.

* On May 30 Jan Crumb and ten like-minded men attended a peace demonstration in Washington, D. C., and on June 1 Vietnam Veterans Against the War was born.

Sophia Violet " Sophie " Crumb ( born September 27, 1981 ) is an American-French comics artist.

Crumb was born in Woodland, California and lived in the nearby farming town of Winters with her parents until she was nine years old.

Kirby then let Pacific publish his Silver Star, and the brothers "... began to envision a line of comics, ... the black-and-white low-print-run underground comics like those being self-published by Robert Crumb and other West Coast contemporaries in San Francisco and L. A., but full-color titles that emulated — maybe even competed with — the mainstream superhero comics from Marvel and DC.

A group that formed after Stang and Drummond began mailing their first pamphlet to publishers, using such pseudonyms as " Puzzling Evidence ", " Dr. Howl ", " Susie the Floozie ", " Palmer Vreedeez ", and " Pope Sternodox ", helped forward the literature to a number of underground pop-culture figures such as R. Crumb, Paul Mavrides, Harry S. Robins, the New Wave rock group Devo, and Erik Lindgren ( producer and president of indie label Arf!

Crumb began drawing this character in homemade comic books when he was a child.

Wilson began collaborating With Robert Crumb in 1967, and all issues of Zap comix, starting with 2, contain his work and that of others who joined them later.

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.

During this period, contributions began to arrive from a variety of creators such as Neal Adams, Richard Corben, Robert Crumb, Dick Giordano, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Jeff Jones, Gérard Lauzier, Jacques Lob, Georges Pichard, Jacques Tardi, Martin Veyron, Wallace Wood and Berni Wrightson.

Mr. Crumb would probably see him at Lodge Meeting the next night.

Larry Rivers, Brett Whiteley, Christo, Arman, Francesco Clemente, Julian Schnabel, Ching Ho Cheng, David Remfry, Philip Taaffe, Ralph Gibson, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Robert Crumb, Jasper Johns, Edie Sedgwick, Claes Oldenburg, Vali Myers, Donald Baechler, Herbert Gentry, Willem De Kooning, Robert Mapplethorpe, Lynne Drexler, Nora Sumberg and Henri Cartier-Bresson have all spent time at the hotel.

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.

Between 1974 and 1984, Crumb drew at least 17 album covers for Yazoo Records / Blue Goose Records, including those of the Cheap Suit Serenaders.

* Cult American cartoonist Robert Crumb on show at Paris ' Modern Art Museum, RFI English

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

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

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.

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

In 1964, when he was not working at American Greetings, Crumb drew many Fritz the Cat strips for his own amusement.

The college has two libraries, the Frederick W. Crumb Memorial Library in the center of the academic quad, and the Crane Music Library, located in Schuette Hall at the Crane complex.

As they run, Lord Crumb shoots Ozzy in the leg and Frank fires his rocket launcher at the leader, but it misses and almost hits Derek, finally taking out a sheep in a nearby meadow.

There he studied with American composer George Crumb at the University of Pennsylvania before receiving his doctorate.

He applied for a job at the Cleveland-based American Greeting Card Company ( where a fellow underground comic artist Robert Crumb had worked ) but was turned down.

After completing her secondary education in France, Crumb studied acrobatics and clowning at a French circus school.

* Sophie Crumb art gallery at The Official Crumb Site

the underground comics movement was spearheaded by people like Robert Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Kim Deitch, Spain Rodriguez and Harvey Pekar, and were often sold at head shops.