Jan 13
Lecture 2: American cartoonist Robert Crumb (usually known as R. Crumb), who gained fame in the 1960s and 1970s for his psychedelic “underground comix,” has always had a deep reverence for (or as he says, “obsession with”) Blues music. An avid collector of Blues 78s (from the 19teens to the 1940s), Crumb has also illustrated several books about the Blues, and is a respected Blues historian himself. These are from his “Heroes of the Blues Trading Cards,” which consists of 36 pen and ink pictures of some of the greatest figures in American Blues music history.
