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Robert Crumb illustrates Bukowski in a new Spanish translation of a selection of his short stories
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/Robert/Crumb/ilustra/Bukowski/elpepucul/20110222elpepucul_4/T
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>> No.1577263

Robert Crumb is still alive?

>> No.1577262
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>> No.1577267

>>1577263
Looks like it

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>> No.1577285

Rough translation of the article:
Three decades after the original edition from the United States, the
stories of Charles Bukowski illustrated by Robert Crumb are being
published for the first time: Bring me your love and other
stories. Although the texts are not unedited, these are the drawing
Crumb made for them between 1975 and 1984. This is a collector's item
offered by Babelia for the first time in a digital edition. The book
will arrive at bookstores at the end of this week.

>> No.1577287

I wish he did these as .svg's

>> No.1577313

>>1577285
It's easy to let the imagination run and think of the impact on the young Robert Crumb of reading the first poems published by Charles Bukowski in the 60's. Although we don't have direct references that this happened, there are enough coincidences and relation between the two authors that it's difficult to avoid the temptation of uniting them as one voice: both evasive of a grim existence towards creation as the only form of subsistence, both uncomfortable witnesses and noters of the reality that surrounded them, provacateurs towards fans of political correctness. United also by recurring accustations of misanthropy and misogyny, but also in being classified, without fear of much error, in two of the authors most influential in the culture of the 20th century. Prolific to exhaustion and rabidly selfdestructive in their personal lives, but also rebellious voices of the lost and forgotten of a system and society that steamrolls its victims.

>> No.1577316

>>1577287
They were drawn in the 70s. Not much chance of SVG then.

>> No.1577343

>>1577313
So many coincidences that, paradoxically, they hardly have anything in common: only a few illustrations, a few drawing that Crumb made for some short stories by Bukowski. The crude and overdrawn strokes of the artist adapt themselves, not surpirisingly, like a glove to the stories of Bukowski in which he practies his well-known stark and dirty realism. However, it's curious to note how Crumb distances himself from the irreverence of the stories to illustrate with careful precision the words of Bukowski, almost like an interpreter, giving place to an image that respects the text with such fidelity that it almost seems to be almost redundant. But there is not such a problem: Crumb continues to articulate a parallel story to Bukowski's, a dialog between the text and the drawings that supports like few others, demonstrating that the coincidences are there, but also clarifying that there are subtle differences between these two geniuses. The first three stories illustrated by Crumb, never published before in Spain (the fourth, The Captain left to eat and the sailors took the boat, was published a few years ago by Anagrama), are recompiled now by Libros del Zorro Rojo en Bring me my love and other stories.

>> No.1577350

>>1577262
I really like this one. Were these ever published in English?

>> No.1577408

Bukowski's as ugly in sketch form as he was in real life.

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>>1577408

And he still got 100x more pussy than you ever will.

Jelly?

>> No.1577522

>>1577433
Why is she so ugly

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>>1577522
Look at how ugly he is, bro. Damn. A lot of his poetry is about how ugly and repulsive he was as a child.

>> No.1577587

>>1577433
Bukowski engaged in what most fat and ugly men engage in--something I call "scatter-fire come-ons."

Basically, anything that has a pussy, they will solicit for sex. They know full well that they will get turned down 99% of the time, but they do it for that 1%.

>> No.1577603

>>1577587

No - he was renowned and a counter-culture icon and he was up to his fucking ears in blart all day long. Look at Keith Richards - do you really think bitches do him because he's handsome? His face looks like it's made of scrotums for fuck's sake.

>> No.1577639

>>1577603
Keith Richards was kind of gorgeous in a stupid-looking kind of way when he was young. Jagger is the one who's always been kind of gross-looking, but even then there's rockstar charisma propelling his sex appeal in addition to simple fame