"Cartoonist Robert Crumb is responsible for one of the greatest album covers of all time, Cheap Thrills, the debut album of 1960s musical icon Janis Joplin with her rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company. In 1967, Crumb founded the first successful underground comix publication, Zap Comix (which Janis Joplin herself was an avid reader of) in San Francisco, during the rise of the counterculture movement, the 'Summer of Love', and was considered a cult hero among the hippy community. Crumb himself actually had no interest in rock music at the time. His great love was towards music from the Jazz Age during the 1920s, including genres such as country, blues, jazz, jive, ragtime, and hillbilly. Crumb, who admired this style of music from a young age, is also known for being one of the world's leading collectors of 'SP records', which existed before the introduction of vinyl records (LP, EP). ..."
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2008 August: Robert Crumb, 2010 October: Comics No. 1, 2011 October: Pioneers of Country Music Trading Cards, 2012 August: R. Crumb: The Complete Record Cover Collection, 2015 May: R. Crumb Describes How He Dropped LSD in the 60s & Instantly Discovered His Artistic Style, 2015 June: Heroes of the Blues Boxed Trading Card Set by R. Crumb, 2018 March: Aline Kominsky-Crumb, 2019 March:R. Crumb’s Portraits of Aline and Others
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