He got me to draw this cute stuff, which influenced by technique, and even now my work has this cuteness about it. The boss kept telling me my drawing was too grotesque. Worked in Cleveland for about another eight months or something and then I went to San Francisco. After high school, Crumb moved to Cleveland, where he was hired by the American Greetings Corporation as a color separator. I was there for nine months and I said New York and came back to Cleveland. So I worked in the color separations department for about a year and then I was promoted to the Hi Brow department for about a year and then I got married and went to Europe and came back and worked American greetings again for about two months and then I decided to Cleveland and went to New York to try to make it big in New York. I came here when I was nineteen after I left home to look for a job and to live with my friend Marty Pahls, and I was here like two weeks and got a job with American Greetings doing color separations. Browse upcoming and past auction lots by. I was here off and on for three or four years. View Robert Crumb Greeting Card Illustration Original Art American Greetings, c. He stayed with the company for four years, producing hundreds of cards for the company’s Hi-Brow line his superiors had him draw in a cuter style that was to leave a footprint on his work throughout his career. Like I get a lot of ego build-up that way, but Cleveland’s a big dumb town. His first job, in 1962, was drawing novelty greeting cards for American Greetings in Cleveland, Ohio. Like in Chicago, Milwaukee, or Detroit or Denver or a lot of other towns, I can get a lot of attention from people who appreciate artists. Robert’s mother often behaved erratically and was probably manic-depressive. American Greetings After graduating from high school in 1962, nineteen-year old Robert Crumb moved to Cleveland, Ohio. he designed greeting cards for the American Greetings Corporation and. His family frequently moved during his childhood and moved to Delaware in 1956 when his father retired after twenty years in the U.S. Robert Crumb (American, born 1943), best known as R. 30, 1943, to a Marine father and a Catholic mother. Like you can get right down to basics here or something. Robert Crumb was born in Philadelphia on Aug. In other ways I really like Cleveland, ya know? It’s like the lowest common denominator or something.

Of all the big cities I’ve been in, Cleveland’s about the deadest or something. Crumb had to join the rat race just like everyone else.Īt nineteen Crumb's art skills landed him a job designing cards at the American Greetings company in Cleveland, Ohio, where he met Harvey Pekar and other artists who inspired him to get out there and try to get paid for his comics.Ĭrumb's cards feature his signature art style minus all the pervy and drug-themed material found in his underground comix, and even though he didn't really dig the job the experience helped shape him as an artist: He soon advanced to card illustrator, but was constantly told his images were too grotesque and that he needed to make his work “cuter.Robert Crumb is a comic art pioneer, a trailblazer in the world of indie comix and one of America's most famous illustrators, but before he became the Big Cheese R. After high school, Crumb moved to Cleveland, where he was hired by the American Greetings Corporation as a color separator. Scarce original birthday card produced by American Greetings in 1964 as part of their Hi Brows line. Crumb was a devout Catholic until the age of sixteen.Ģ. Chuck was in the Marine Corps, and the family moved around a great deal during Robert’s childhood, but never abandoned religion. Robert Crumb’s grandfather, Winifred Crumb, was a frontiersman, and he and his wife Mary had fourteen children, one of whom was Charles (Chuck), Robert’s father (Crumb’s family tree going back five generations is charted on the artist’s website). Currently on view at David Zwirner (through April 17), the illustrations have taken Crumb five years to complete. So his latest project, a fully illustrated comic-style rendering of the Book of Genesis, comprised of 207 individual works in pen and ink,might surprise you. Robert Crumb American Greetings Low Brow greeting card Juxtapoz Zap Comix. Vibrant colorâ stored in the dark.In the early 70s I loved Robert Crumbs work. Expected wear for itâ s age, refer to photos.

1943, Philadelphia)is best known for his scatalogical ink drawings for mainstream magazines like Rolling Stone to accompany the work of Hunter S Thompson, and the seminal journal he founded, Zap. Robert Crumb American Greetings Hi Brows greeting cards.

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