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Robert Crumb + LSD

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Annie B

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ROBERT CRUMB

AND THE EFFECTS OF LSD

"his psychedelic experiences were used to "harvest" ideas intended for later production. Comic art scholar Robert Harvey reports that Crumb was unable to draw while high and used the experience as inspiration for work created after wards."

THANK YOU FOR LISTENING !

IS THE ART REALLY ORGANIC IF IT DOESN'T COME

DIRECTLY FROM THE SOBER MIND ?

DO YOU THINK CRUMB'S SUCCESS IS A

RESULT OF HIS LSD USE ?

- Re-telling/illustration of The Book of Genesis

  • - Currently living with wife Aline in France

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

- The Confessions of Robert Crumb

and Crumb

CRUMB CONCLUSION

Stimulates creativity

which is tempting for artists to use in their work

LSD CONCLUSION

WHO IS ROBERT CRUMB ?

- Pennsylvania 1943

- Abusive father/ mentally ill mother

- Social outcast

- Faithful catholic until the age of 16

- Biggest influences: brother Charles,

Harvey Kurtzman & Carl Barks

American Greetings Association - Commercial Illustrator

  • "My boss kept telling me my drawings were too grotesque. I was trained to draw 'cute' little neuter characters which influenced my technique, and even now my work has this cuteness about it"

ART

Cross-Hatching technique (Widmer)

Caricature + Sature of American Culture,

Amazonian women, obsession with sex

Began use of LSD

in 1965

- 1968

  • Zap Comix

- LSD period was "stylistically based on grotesque, vulgar humor comics of the thirties and forties"

  • "Keep on Truckin", Devil Girl and Fritz the Cat. Also, Mr. Natural, Mr. Snoid and Angelfood McSpade

- He describes the period as being on autopilot and having "a nightmarish mechanical aspect to everyday life"

- 1973: Quit

http://www.cowboybooks.com.au/html/acidtrip1.html

ROBERT CRUMB ON LSD

WHAT IS LSD ?

- lysergic acid diethylamide

  • ACID

- 1938 ergot fungus

- affects frontal cortex +

locus coereleus

- physical + mental effects

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