Join comics legend R. Crumb for a rare US appearance in conversation with biographer Dan Nadel & The New Yorker’s Naomi Fry. | 92nd Street Y

Art by Robert Crumb Bumble Bee Slim (1905–1968) was an American Piedmont blues singer, guitarist, and pianist. Born Amos Easton in Georgia, he moved to Indianapolis and later Chicago, where he became a prolific recording artist in the 1930s. His smooth, jazzy blues style and witty lyrics made him popular, and he recorded over 150 songs for labels like Bluebird and Vocalion. Though his fame declined after the 1930s, he continued performing and recording until his death in Los Angeles in 1968. #bl

"In 1987, Robert Crumb presents himself: raised by a Marine father, educated in Catholic schools, married at 21 in Cleveland where he worked for a greeting card company, dropping acid in 1965, heading to San Francisco and getting in on the formation of Zap Comix, gaining celebrity, loving old time jazz, starting a band, living in a commune, meeting Aline Kominsky who became his second wife and his partner in art, having a daughter, and developing a more realistic drawing style. The confessions i

"I just couldn't get with it." - Robert Crumb. Terry Zwigoff’s landmark 1995 film is an intimate documentary portrait of the underground artist Robert Crumb, whose unique drawing style and sexually and racially provocative subject matter have made him a household name in popular American art. Streaming now on DocPlay. | DocPlay