[AGL] I met R. Crumb once

[Gerry]

Don't recall ever meeting Crumb but Gilbert took me with him once to meet S.
Clay Wilson. For a time I was his pot connection. In those days none of the
comic artists ever had any money. Once he paid me with comics, a sizeable
stack of them. Wish I had kept a few. There was something about his work I
always liked. But Gilbert was my favorite because he was drawing us!
G


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> ...when I was a Professor of Hohosexual Revolution and Linguistics at

> Fresno State College. Gilbo took me by.

>

> He was exactly the way he was (like in the documentary). You really want

> to like the guy, but he doesn't necessarily want to be liked.

>

> He had a bunch of plastic and rubber toys around his studio, including the

> cheery buck-toothed rabbit who was clearly the model for G*D in one of the

> cartoons.

>

> I was also amused to discover that Gloria Nord, ice skating queen, really

> did exist and she was just the way R. Crumb portrayed her (sort of

> anyway).

>

> Excellent exchange between art critic/novelist Robert Hughes and Crumb

> recently. Go root it up.

>

> BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB

>

> "The nice old gentleman wanted me to autograph something so I naturally

> obliged him."

>

> Adolf Hitler's explanation as to why he signed the Munich Accords

>