Vintage 1995
Signed Robert Crumb
THE NIGHTMARE
Satire Comic Fuseli Parody Print
Extremely Rare & Limited #220 of 250
Striking and characteristic R. Crumb image, the great American underground cartoonist’s hommage to Fuseli’s celebrated painting of the same title, rendered in a contemporary setting with a smirking, crouching figure perched atop a sleeping big-hipped gal in knee boots and short dress. This is an original serigraph of R. Crumb's satirical take on the Henri Fuseli classic painting, The Nightmare--a depiciton of Crumb's former girlfriend Kathy Goodell gets a nocturnal visit from Mr. Snoid. Professionally framed (paper backing is sealed); There's still the plastic protective film over the silver-tone plastic frame, ready for you to peel off. Embossed printer's mark on the lower left corner. Measures ???", counting the deckle edged bottom margin. Printed on textured, cream-colored, fine art paper and printed using a 4-color process. HAND SIGNED and numbered below the ????" image in the artist's distinctive cursive handwriting. The COA may OR may not be behind the sealed paper backing.
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Robert Dennis Crumb (/krʌm/; born August 30, 1943) is an American cartoonist and musician who often signs his work R. Crumb. His work displays a nostalgia for American folk culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and satire of contemporary American culture. Crumb is a prolific artist and contributed to many of the seminal works of the underground comix movement in the 1960s, including being a founder of the first successful underground comix publication, Zap Comix, contributing to all 16 issues. He was additionally contributing to the East Village Other and many other publications, including a variety of one-off and anthology comics. During this time, inspired by psychedelics and cartoons from the 1920s and 1930s, he introduced a wide variety of characters that became extremely popular, including countercultural icons Fritz the Cat and Mr. Natural, and the images from his Keep On Truckin' strip. Sexual themes abounded in all these projects, often shading into scatological and pornographic comics. In the mid-1970s, he contributed to the Arcade anthology; following the decline of the underground, he moved towards biographical and autobiographical subjects while refining his drawing style, a heavily crosshatched pen-and-ink style inspired by late 19th- and early 20th-century cartooning. Much of his work appeared in a magazine he founded, Weirdo (1981–1993), which was one of the most prominent publications of the alternative comics era. As his career progressed, his comic work became more autobiographical.
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