R. Crumb, I wish I Had The Chance....
Looking back on some older work I found this drawing among my pen and inks. The issue of cartooning always was a subject I enjoyed playing around with, a'la R. Crumb and Zap Comics...who's comicbooks were among my most favorite to read and reread. In absorbing R. Crumb's artwork among the pages of cheaply printed newsprint I found myself laughing out loud at some of his very detailed humorous drawings of the city. I didn't know it at the time but he was but a few miles away from me as he lived in Northeastern Philly while I was in West Philly during the 1970's. I would have liked to have met him, I would have liked to see what he thought of my artwork at the time when I was in the Penn Academy of the Fine Arts doing my own cartoons in oil paint. People actually didn't know what to make of my art. Half the faculty loved em and half hated em, so go figure...I guess I was doing something right. I believe in a mixed reaction even if it hurts some, at leas