Charles Crumb

Charles Crumb
Born	1942 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died	February 1993 Philadelphia
Occupation	Artist
Parents	Charles and Beatrice Crumb

Charles Vincent Crumb, Jr. (1942 - February 1993^[1]) was an American artist closely associated with his famous younger brother, the cartoonist Robert Crumb.

Charles often appears as a character in Robert Crumb's comic stories and autobiographical writings; Robert credits Charles' childhood obsession with making comics as the foundation of Robert's own devotion to his art.

As Charles entered adulthood he became progressively troubled both emotionally and psychologically and he rarely ventured outside of his family home where he lived with his mother. At this point his artwork took on specific attributes common to the psychologically troubled: repetitive and painstaking concentric lines filling in otherwise normal Crumb-esque drawings, reflecting an obsession with filling every last centimeter of white space.

Charles Crumb and his artwork received wide public attention as a result of the success of the 1994 feature-length documentary film Crumb, in which Charles and his work are featured prominently. His artwork, including notebooks filled with tiny gestural marks that suggest handwriting, has been published and exhibited, sometimes in the context of outsider art. His mother threw out a great deal of his artwork as she thought "no one would be interested in it."

In the film Crumb, R. Crumb describes how Charles would often react to things by saying "How perfectly goddamned delightful it all is, to be sure."

Charles Crumb committed suicide in February 1993.^[1] He reportedly died as a result of an overdose.^[1]

External reviews

• Charles Crumb at the Internet Movie Database

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Entertainment Weekly article: "R. Crumb's Family Circus."

• Crumb
• Crumb Family Comics
• The Complete Crumb Comics
• Your Vigor for Life Appalls Me: Robert Crumb Letters 1958-1977

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Name	Crumb, Charles
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Date of birth	1942
Place of birth	United States
Date of death	1992
Place of death	United States