![]() It didn’t take long for Robert’s younger brother and sisters to lose interest, but Bob and Chuck carried on, creating their own storylines based on characters from a favorite movie, Treasure Island. Growing up, the siblings all were coerced by Charles to create their own line of homemade comic books, drawn in pencil on folded sheets of lined notebook paper. His older brother, Charles, was an avid comic book reader, and his love of late 1940s-early 1950s comics devoted to such kiddie fare as Little Lulu and Donald Duck rubbed off on Robert. Robert Crumb was the second of five siblings in his family. 16-18 Comics and Comic Art Auction is, to use a 1960s phrase, “mind-blowing.” Let me try to explain why. This 1970-era sketchbook, which had 20 bidders before realizing at $143,400 in Heritage Auctions’ Nov. ![]() ![]() Yet for me, nothing has been like the experience of leafing through one of his sketchbooks from that halcyon period of 1967-71, his peak years as an Underground Cartoonist. All of it – even the stuff that some would consider extremely vulgar or offensive (Crumb has been notorious for holding nothing back) – has been interesting. In the 14-plus years I have worked in Heritage’s Comic Division, I have handled a lot of R. Buy, Value or Appraise Your Comicsīid or buy comic books and illustrations for sale, value your item, or request a free appraisal to sell your collection. His artwork from the 1960s and early ’70s has been especially interesting, to the point that sales of some of his more iconic pieces have made the news a number of times in recent years, for the incredible amounts of money some are willing to spend to own it. The artwork of Robert Crumb has been a source of fascination for many. Comic Art, Comics - Auction Preview, Icon Spotlight by David Tosh
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