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For more information please contact: Sharon Herfurth | (512) 974-3800
October 16, 2009
Crumb, the Movie, at the Spicewood Springs Branch
Join the Spicewood Springs Branch of the Austin Public Library, 8637 Spicewood Springs Dr., at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, November 9 as we watch Crumb, a portrait of the iconic cartoonist and learn about Austin Public Library's Graphic Novel Book Club. The screening and discussion precede an appearance by Robert Crumb and Art Spiegelman at the Bass Concert Hall on November 13. The Library program is made possible in part by the University of Texas Performing Arts Center. For more information please call 512-974-3800 or visit www.cityofaustin.org/library.
Terry Zwigoff's film Crumb is an intimate portrait of the underground artist Robert Crumb. It is also a creepy, darkly funny, and haunting glimpse into the capriciousness of fate in the workings of a single family -- the Crumb family. Shot over a period of six years, Crumb uses unexpurgated interviews with the artist, his family, colleagues, critics, and ex-lovers, along with footage of his work, to paint a riveting picture of this artist's obsessions, and of the powerful visions he has created with them. Ultimately, the film is about following one's own individual vision and the rewards and risks of doing so.
Crumb is best known for three pieces of work. The first is his drawing, "Keep on Truckin" which has adorned everything from mud flaps to coffee mugs. The second is his cover art for the Big Brother and the Holding Company (featuring Janis Joplin) lp, "Cheap Thrills" and the third is the adaptation of his randy character "Fritz The Cat" into the first x-rated feature animated film by Ralph Bakshi. (As Crumb explains in the film, all of these projects have extremely sour connotations for him.) When Crumb created Zap Comix (and characters like Fritz the Cat, Flakey Foont, Mr. Natural, and Angelfood McSpade), he started the wave of underground "comix" that thrives today. But since those early days (the first Zap comic appeared in 1968), Crumb has produced an enormous body of work; his comic work is more widely read today than ever. Critics have come to recognize him as an extraordinary and iconoclastic talent, and his work is now finding its way into museums (Crumb was featured prominently in the 1990 High & Low exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.)
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