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Sophie Crumb: Evolution of a Crazy Artist [Hardcover]

S. Crumb (Editor), A. Crumb (Editor), R. Crumb (Editor)

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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Sophie Crumb's slender body of published comics so far identifies her as an interesting--but still mostly promising--young cartoonist. Questions about this compilation of childhood and sketchbook drawings are both unavoidable and acknowledged. In their twin introductions, Sophie's parents (and co-editors) Robert and Aline Kominsky-Crumb position this book as something other than "Crumbsploitation," praising their daughter's artwork and suggesting that this chronological, lifelong sketchbook anthology constitutes a unique and fascinating document of personal and artistic development. The book satisfies somewhat on these counts. Sophie's earliest work includes very advanced preschool art, and she remains continuously prolific. However, to distance this work from her family background denies part of the reason for her early, sustained development and one of this book's major narrative threads: her relationship to the legacy of her celebrated parents. Their presence as media guides is evident in her early subjects (the Three Stooges, vintage cartoons). Later she leaves home to join a circus, study tattooing, and live with lowlifes in New York City. The true legacy of her parents' influence is her constant outpouring of uncensored, self-critical, and perceptive drawing. (Nov.) (c)
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Product Description

A groundbreaking work of striking originality that charts a young artist's life through her own drawings-from toddlerhood to motherhood. Sophie Crumb's startlingly expressive drawings track her development as an artist from age two to twenty-eight. Sifting through dozens of their daughter's remarkable sketchbooks, our generation's most celebrated graphic artists have, with their only child, Sophie, now selected more than three hundred paintings and drawings that depict her artistic and psychological maturation. Revealing how an original artistic sensibility is both innate and nurtured, the book features six separate developmental stages, including Sophie's earliest drawings, the elaborate fantasy world of her childhood, her late adolescent rebellion, and her coming of age in the milieu of the Paris circus world and New York's "seventh circle of hell." The drawings from her early twenties—of tattoo artists, dangerous men—reflect a personal anguish that finally ends with her becoming a mother and creating a family of her own. Illuminating and intimate, this book is a dramatic yet subtle statement on the evolution of personality as seen through art. Four-color illustrations throughout

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Product Details

Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (November 15, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0393079961

ISBN-13: 978-0393079968

Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 8.1 x 1.2 inches

Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

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Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #66,178 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

#4 in Books > Comics & Graphic Novels > Authors, A-Z >Crumb, R.

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From: http://wfmuichiban.blogspot.com/2009/12/black-christmas.html

Black Christmas - Here is a cd compiled by Lux Interior and Ivy Rorschach of The Cramps. Artwork care of Lux himself. This was originally put together for some magazine, but I can't recall which.

Have a BLACK_Christmas!: http://www.rockndog.com/Black_Christmas/
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From: Chuck Miller's The Cramps Blog:
http://suchbeautifulgardens.blogspot.com/

From: http://suchbeautifulgardens.blogspot.com/2009/12/christmas-cramps.html

The three drawings below are by Benjamin Marra, who says: "These were sketches for an assignment that didn't pan out. It was a cool one: to illustrate a Cramps Christmas album cover. I think my friend and colleague Ted McGrath ended up getting the gig. Dems da breaks ..."
http://benjaminmarra.blogspot.com/2008_08_01_archive.html

From: http://brainsteakbikini.blogspot.com/2009/12/congo-christmas.html

Congo Christmas "Kid send me this letter from L.A. on December 28, 1981. Artwork : Kris Guidio" -Krom at Brain Steak Bikini - Far out with The Cramps

From: http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/2009/12/happy-holidays-and-happy-new-decade.html

Happy Holidays and best wishes for the new decade, compliments of myself and Krampus, St. Nicholas' cloven-hooved, chain-swinging, lolling-toungued, child-punishing Eastern-European sidekick.

If what you see interests you, then you might want to check out The Devil in Design: The Krampus Postcards, which you can purchase from The Morbid Anatomy Bookstore by clicking here: http://astore.amazon.com/morbanat-20/detail/1560975423

From: http://weirdtownstuff.blogspot.com/2009/12/various-artists-oh-no-not-another.html

Various Artists: Oh! No! Not Another... Midnight Christmas Mess Again!!

1. Hazy Shades of Winter - The Slickee Boys
2. Christmas I'll Be Home - The Vipers
3. Star - The Cheepskates
4. Santa is Comin' Down Again - The Psycho Daisies
5. Santa Ain't Santa - Woofing Cookies
6. Jesus Christ - The Love Pushers
7. O Tannenbaum Now - Das Furlines
8. Blue Christmas - The Ravens
9. Wreck These Halls - Howard & Jag's X-mas Vacation
10. Sleighbell Bop - The Holidays
11. Coal in My Stocking - The Backbones
12. Christmas Eve at KNL (Kansas Neurological Institute) - The Iguanas
13. Snow is Falling - Dementia 13

http://rapidshare.com/files/323806337/02-xmess.zip

Two more volumes of Midnight Christmas Mess:
http://weirdtownstuff.blogspot.com/2009/12/various-artists-midnight-christmas-mess.html
http://weirdtownstuff.blogspot.com/2009/12/various-artists-its-midnight-xmess-part.html

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From: http://trixietreats.tumblr.com/post/298523373/addams-family-christmas

Addams Family Christmas

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"Never Kill Santa Claus" from the February 1973 issue of The Witching Hour #28, followed by a xmas themed ouija board text tale

From: http://therealbigrockcandymountain.blogspot.com/2009/12/boogaloo-santa.html

From: http://lpcoverlover.com/2009/12/12/have-you-been-good-or-bad/

Navidades con Chucha La Loca (Solo Para Adultos)

From: http://snakeoilblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/greatest-story-ever-told.html

Santa Claus versus The Devil

I first saw K. Gordon Murray's Santa Claus at the 25th Street Theatre in Waco, TX in 1966. It's impossible to overstate the profound effect this film had on my life. Of course, it was the English dubbed version I saw, but nowadays I'm partial to the original spanish. Here is the classic scene where the Devil tempts Lupe to steal the doll:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e63yPs5uB8

From: http://lacontessa.tumblr.com/post/292025519/rene-magritte-woman-1923

Rene Magritte, Woman, 1923.

From: http://crookiesblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/happy-2010.html

Happy 2010 - "How terrible do I feel about using the same image I painted from last year?! I think I can squeeze a few more years out of this one." - MATTHEW CRUICKSHANK (via death becomes her)

From: http://powsley.blogspot.com/2009/12/merry-christmas-from-munsters.html

'AL "Grandpa Munster" LEWIS signed this cool MUNSTERS CHRISTMAS photo for me back in 1989!' - PATRICK OWSLEY

From: http://www.flickr.com/photos/vintagehalloweencollector/sets/72157594429321748/

Vintage Christmas Krampus Postcards

Men about to be punished by lady Krampus

Vintage Christmas Postcard - Krampus and Saint Nick

Girl with her favorite Krampus Figure (Dated 1906)

Krampus stealing babies and taking them to Spain

From: http://www.flickr.com/photos/73902814@N00/3016951354/in/set-72157608818462424/

Holiday Grotesque #1 KRAMPUS! 1st in a new series of Holiday paintings in trading card size by Matthew Kirscht.

From: http://trixietreats.tumblr.com/post/298466738/the-best-new-years-postcard-ever-via

Another by Matthew Kirscht

From: http://sundayblues.org/archives/233

Rev. A.W. Nix was one of the great singing preachers whose fiery, earthshaking sermons are enough to send any sinner running for salvation. Nix made his mark with his first coupling, the incredibly intense “Black Diamond Express to Hell Pts. I & II” in 1927. This was one of the best known and popular sermons with Parts 3 and 4 issued in 1929 and parts 5 and 6 in 1930. He cut fifty sermons for Vocalion through 1931, railing against sinners in sermons with provocative titles like “Goin’ To Hell And Who Cares”, “The Fat Life Will Bring You Down”, “Jack The Ripper” and “Hot Shot Mamas And Teasing Browns.” He had a special affinity for the holidays as evidenced in recordings like “Death Might Be Your Christmas Gift”, “That Little Thing May Kill You Yet (Christmas Sermon)”, “Begin A New Life On Christmas Day – Part 1 & 2″ and “How Will You Spend Christmas?” (via PCL LinkDump/Donna Lethal)
Listen & download here: http://www.baddogblues.org/clips/nix-present.mp3

From: http://dailyhitler.blogspot.com/2009/12/merry-christmas-from-daily-hitler.html

How Hitler's Nazi propaganda machine tried to take Christ out of Christmas
(From the Daily Mail)

Nazi Germany celebrated Christmas without Christ with the help of swastika tree baubles, 'Germanic' cookies and a host of manufactured traditions, a new exhibition has shown. The way the celebration was gradually taken over and exploited for propaganda purposes by Hitler's Nazis is detailed in a new exhibition. Rita Breuer has spent years scouring flea markets for old German Christmas ornaments. She and her daughter Judith developed a fascination with the way Christmas was used by the atheist Nazis, who tried to turn it into a pagan winter solstice celebration. Selected objects from the family's enormous collection have gone on show at the National Socialism Documentation Centre in Cologne. 'Christmas was a provocation for the Nazis - after all, the baby Jesus was a Jewish child,' Judith Breuer told the German newspaper Spiegel. 'The most important celebration in the year didn't fit with their racist beliefs so they had to react, by trying to make it less Christian.' The exhibition includes swastika-shaped cookie-cutters and Christmas tree baubles shaped like Iron Cross medals. The Nazis attempted to persuade housewives to bake cookies in the shape of swastikas, and they replaced the Christian figure of Saint Nicholas, who traditionally brings German children treats on December 6, with the Norse god Odin. The symbol that posed a particular problem for the Nazis was the star, which traditionally decorates Christmas trees. Civilians were encouraged to send patriotic Christmas cards to soldiers at the front. The Iron Cross shaped Christmas tree decorations commemorate the start of World War One. 'Either it was a six-pointed star, which was a symbol of the Jews, or it was a five-pointed star, which represented the Soviets,' Breuer said. It had to go. In the 1930s, the Nazis tried to change the ideology of Christmas. But when World War II started, the focus became more practical. There were also tips on how to make Christmas cookies in the face of food shortages.

In 1944-1945, the Nazis tried to reinvent the festival once again as a day to commemorate the dead, in particular fallen soldiers. 'By then nobody felt like celebrating,' Breuer explained. Happily, the German people mostly ignored the clumsy propaganda efforts and continued with the same traditions as before. The is a legacy of the Nazi Christmas. The wartime version of the traditional Christmas carol 'Unto us a time has come' is still sung. 'The Nazis took out the references to Jesus and made it into a song about walking through the snow,' Breuer said. Surprisingly, German churches put up little opposition to the Nazification of Christmas. 'You would have expected them to protest loudly and insist that it was a Christian festival,' said Breuer. 'But instead they largely kept quiet, out of fear.'

From: http://dailyhitler.blogspot.com/2009/12/hitler-getting-beat-by-krampus.html

Hitler getting beat by Krampus

From: http://gmtplus9.blogspot.com/2009/12/christmas-with-satan.html

James Chance... Christmas With Satan (2002, Tiger Style TS-038 .mp3 audio 06:14). Christmas With Satan was originally released by James White on A Christmas Record (1981, ZE Records ILPS 7017). It was replaced by No More Christmas Blues by Alan Vega on the 1982 edition.
Listen & Download: http://www.box.net/shared/static/y7e6huh0x9.mp3

From: http://texaspunktreasurechest.blogspot.com/2009/12/culturcide-santa-claus-was-my.html

Culturcide "Santa Claus Was My Lover/Depressed Christmas" 7"

A Christmas time classic from Houstons own Culturcide... Especially the b-side. Merry Christmas (or whatever you're into) from the Texas Punk Treasure Chest!
1. Santa Claus Was My Lover
2. Depressed Christmas

DL: Culturcide "Santa Claus Was My Lover/Depressed Christmas" 7": http://www.mediafire.com/?khymmgjcjjn

From: http://www.pulpinternational.com/pulp/entry/Publicity-photo-of-Joan-Collins.html