60's Counter Culture
Robert Crumb is an cartoonist and musician who created many raunchy comics during the 60's, including Fritz the cat and Zap, which he mostly published in the magazine he founded called Weirdo.
His comics all contained adult themes of sex, drugs and social issues such as racism, all inspired by the changes in society happening at the time. In a biographical documentary published in 1995, Crumb admits that his style was inspired by an LSD trip that 'left him fuzzy for weeks' and lead to him abandoning the more conventional style he had in his very early work.
He also admitted to being very inspired by S. Clay Wilson, citing the mayhem and obscenity of his work as liberating for his won work. He was another underground American comic artist from the time who made similar violent and sexual pieces, usually about pirates or bikers. There are many similarities between the two artists work, especially the way of crosshatching that involves many short, inked lines for shading. They also have a similar way of drawing characters, both using wide, round eyes and strange proportions.
His comics all contained adult themes of sex, drugs and social issues such as racism, all inspired by the changes in society happening at the time. In a biographical documentary published in 1995, Crumb admits that his style was inspired by an LSD trip that 'left him fuzzy for weeks' and lead to him abandoning the more conventional style he had in his very early work.
He also admitted to being very inspired by S. Clay Wilson, citing the mayhem and obscenity of his work as liberating for his won work. He was another underground American comic artist from the time who made similar violent and sexual pieces, usually about pirates or bikers. There are many similarities between the two artists work, especially the way of crosshatching that involves many short, inked lines for shading. They also have a similar way of drawing characters, both using wide, round eyes and strange proportions.
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