In 2002, Fantagraphics Books and Oog & Blik published Crumb's first comic book, Belly Button, followed by Belly Button Comix #2 in 2004. Her drawings were meant to reflect the personality and inner life of Enid Coleslaw ( Thora Birch), the film's protagonist. 1987).Ĭrumb illustrated a sketchbook for the American film Ghost World (2001). Her artwork as a six-year-old was also featured in Wimmen's Comix #11 (Apr.
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When Crumb was a child, her parents published some of her drawings in their comics anthology, Weirdo she later contributed to their comic book series Dirty Laundry Comics, originally published from 1977 to 1992. She lives in the south of France with her husband (a construction worker) and their son, Eli, who was born in 2009. At another stage, she earned a living by teaching English as a foreign language. While living in Brooklyn in the mid-2000s, she sold her comics on the street and apprenticed herself to a tattoo artist.
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Zwigoff later commissioned Sophie to prepare some original drawings for inclusion in his 2001 comedy drama Ghost World, an adaptation of Daniel Clowes' comics serial of the same name.Īfter completing her secondary education in France, Crumb studied acrobatics and clowning at a French circus school. Īfter this relocation, Terry Zwigoff released Crumb (1994), a documentary film about her father and their family. In a 2010 interview, Sophie told The Philadelphia Inquirer that her mother was afraid Sophie would "turn into a Valley girl".
Her parents reported that they wanted to remove her from the political conservatives and Christian fundamentalists of the United States. In 1991, she relocated with her family to Sauve, a village in the south of France. Ĭrumb was born in Woodland, California, and lived in the nearby farming town of Winters with her parents until she was nine years old. She had an older half-brother, Jesse, who died in 2017 by injuries he sustained in a car accident. She is the daughter of underground comix artists Robert Crumb and Aline Kominsky-Crumb. Their daughter Sophie Crumb has also followed a cartooning career.Sophia Violet "Sophie" Crumb (born September 27, 1981) is an American-French comics artist. He is married to cartoonist Aline Kominsky-Crumb, with whom he has frequently collaborated. In 1991, Crumb was inducted into the comic book industry's Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame.
As his career progressed, his comic work became more autobiographical. Much of his work appeared in a magazine he founded, Weirdo (1981–1993), which was one of the most prominent publications of the alternative comics era. In the mid-1970s, he contributed to the Arcade anthology following the decline of the underground, he moved towards biographical and autobiographical subjects while refining his drawing style, a heavily crosshatched pen-and-ink style inspired by late 19th- and early 20th-century cartooning. Sexual themes abounded in all these projects, often shading into scatological and pornographic comics. Natural, and the images from his Keep on Truckin' strip. During this time, inspired by psychedelics and cartoons from the 1920s and 1930s, he introduced a wide variety of characters that became extremely popular, including countercultural icons Fritz the Cat and Mr. He was additionally contributing to the East Village Other and many other publications, including a variety of one-off and anthology comics. His work displays a nostalgia for American folk culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and satire of contemporary American culture.Ĭrumb is a prolific artist and contributed to many of the seminal works of the underground comix movement in the 1960s, including being a founder of the first successful underground comix publication, Zap Comix, contributing to all 16 issues. Robert Dennis Crumb ( / k r ʌ m/ born August 30, 1943) is an American cartoonist and musician who often signs his work R. Crumb.
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