"In a self-portrait on the cover of Dan Nadel's new biography, Robert Crumb, the cartoonist renowned for his "underground comix," holds two of his creations: Zap and Weird o. He looks like he wants to sell the books, or at least show them off. Both were edited and drawn mostly by Crumb, began their lives in San Francisco, and were published by a company called Last Gasp."
"While many of his earlier comics mocked modern foibles, Crumb found the Bible's narrative "so bizarre in itself, there's no need to satirize it." His original inked pages (200 of them) sold for $2.9 million dollars to the new Lucas Museum for Narrative Art, after which the artist and his wife, fellow cartoonist Aline Kaminsky, created a few comics about their latest quandary: what to do with all that money?"
Robert Crumb created influential underground comix such as Zap and Weird o, which began in San Francisco and were published by Last Gasp. He participated in the 1960s Haight-Ashbury scene, selling first editions on Haight Street and associating with head shops, Grateful Dead concerts, the Human Be-In, the Diggers, the Free Store, and free love. Crumb later moved to France in 1991 and spent over three years illustrating the Book of Genesis, finding its narrative inherently bizarre. Two hundred original inked Genesis pages sold for $2.9 million to the Lucas Museum for Narrative Art, prompting comics about handling newfound wealth.
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