R. Crumb: Conversations

To tie-in with two exhibitions of the artist’s work - at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, and Bonhams’ Gallery, New Bond Street - both March ‘05 NFT running a season of films that are in some way related to Crumb Coincides with publication of The R Crumb Handbook Born in 1943, Crumb first made a name for himself in the early Sixties, when his sexually explicit cartoons became popular with the counter-culture. Having created such iconic characters as Mr. Natural, Fritz the Cat, and even himself as part of his cartoon universe, Crumb is firmly established as one of the most significant, controversial, and technically gifted cartoonists of the second half of the twentieth century. Still a cult figure, he can now also boast a significant mainstream following. R. Crumb: Conversations collects interviews that span the late 1960s to present. In these, Crumb proves to be iconoclastic, opinionated, and - despite his celebrity - impervious to the commercial moods of the public.