How cool is this?
Drew Friedman posts up this groovy piece (above, art (c) Drew Friedman) depicting Robert Crumb offering his original Cheap Thrills comic to Janis Joplin, backstage at the Filmore West in San Francisco in 1968. Its a lovely bit of art from Drew (commissioned by the owner of the original Cheap Thrills art to go alongside it) with two major 60s counter-culture figures, one from music, one from underground comics, illustrating (no pun intended) the way different artforms cross over into one another. I’m also rather tickled by Drew’s description of Crumb back in the long-gone swinging sixties: “Crumb wore his hair for a time at it’s longest in ’68, which I try to show. Joplin was also encouraging him to “loosen up” and wear “hippie clothes and beads” but he just couldn’t go that far.” Sad to think just a couple of years after this, she’d be gone… (link via Boing Boing)
(the album sleeve art by Crumb for Joplin’s Cheap Thrills)
March 10th, 2009 at 12:36 am
And then see the contemporaneous Herb Trimpe/Gary Friedrich pastiche from Marvel’s NOT BRAND ECHH.
June 4th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
FYI, the Friedman piece is available as an art print at:
http://drewfriedman.net/prints/cheap-thrills.html