 Crumb Featured in 'W' MagazineAn Idiosyncratic Collection of Drawings of WomenPublished: 10/30/2009 06:52pm The annual “art and design” issue of Conde Nast’s W magazine includes 16 pages of art by the inimitable R. Crumb. In this collection of drawings, which was commissioned by W, Crumb offers an idiosyncratic survey of female types ranging from his archetypal hirsute hamhocked cave women to females drawn from memory or rendered from photographs of subjects as disparate as mid 19th Century mental patients, Crumb's high school classmates, and Playboy bunnies. Crumb’s art looks great in the magazine’s large 10” x 13” format, and Crumb collectors will definitely want to acquire this issue.
The collection of drawings in W only serves to raise the profile of the maestro of underground comix, who is more visible now than he has been in years. Crumb’s illustrated adaptation of the Book of Genesis has been one of the bestselling new graphic novels of the fall season. It has garnered a number of excellent reviews including a two-page rave by Malcolm Jones in November 2nd issue of Newsweek. |
