#Mr. Natural

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Bob Zoell Earth Magazine Original Art (Earth, 1971) Source

“New subscribers to Earth magazine in 1971 received a fine poster reproduction of this artwork, as a premium. It also appeared as a magazine centerfold. Zoell's over-sized, two-layered painting features exaggerated versions of such familiar cartoon characters as Mickey Mouse, Felix the Cat, and R. Crumb's Mr. Natural. A lesser Disney character, Bucky Bug, appears at lower right above the signature. Designed like an animation cel, with the principal images painted on a transparent overlay, and the painted background on textured watercolor stock.”

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Robert Crumb: Mr. Natural

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Mr. Natural at the Shore, 1977.

Looks like we won't get to a nude beach again this Season--tant pis.

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Happy Turkey Day!🦃🍁🥧

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"In the Mood!!"

Her pants are not far off from what she was wearing during that time period. On the shirt, during this seventies period while it is interesting some of the things that appeared on t-shirts (Mickey Mouse to Mickey Rat?) no one was ever going to wear that one. It is a little amusing to see Robert Crumb did see an appearance in Archie Comics, ads selling iron on decals with the "Keep on Truckin'" image (C7), and another for Mr. Natural (D3). Though I am more curious on how the Budweiser and the "Master" and "Slave" ones pass code standards.

In keeping with a Crumb response page on the growing popularity of his "Keep on Truckin' ", ("keep on [blank]in' " with comical number of copyright notices splashed about) -- decal J6 has "Keep on Bikin' ". Curious too that later ads see a copyright Crumb note, pointing to the state the issue was in the court system.

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Hard Truth from R. crumb

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Charles Bukowski by Robert Crumb

It just seems fitting that Robert Crumb and Charles Bukowski would find themselves working together at some point. In the 1980s, they joined forces in the two Bukowski books, Bring Me Your Love and There’s No Business. Crumbs most famous works include his Keep On Truckin’ strip, and strips featuring characters such as the bohemian Fritz the Cat, spiritual guru Mr. Natural. But enough already; the…

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R. CRUMB

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Robert Crumb - Original Cover Art for Mr. Natural #2 (San Francisco Comic Book Company, 1971)

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"... FOR MANY PEOPLE, "HEAD COMIX" WAS THEIR FIRST EXPOSURE TO UNDERGROUND COMICS."

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on cover art to R. Crumb's "Head Comix" 1st Printing -- Softcover (68 pages), published by New York's Viking Press in 1968. Cover art by R. Crumb. "Head Comix" was the first mass-produced and nationally distributed samplings of Crumb's work just as he was becoming famous, and remains an excellent introductory collection of his early work.

OVERVIEW: The meteoric rise in popularity of Robert Crumb's early work in the "East Village Other" and "Zap Comix" in 1967 and 1968 quickly caught the attention of book publishers in New York, who wanted to cash in on "the fad." Several began vying for publishing rights to Crumb's work, leading to Viking Press rushing out "Head Comix" in late 1968. Viking printed a limited number of hardcover copies of the book along with the standard softcover edition. The 64 interior pages feature an introduction by Paul Krassner ("The Realist"), several comics from "Zap" #1 plus many others that appeared in various tabloid and magazines, like the "East Village Other" and "Cavalier," and some "Fritz the Cat" stories from "Help!"

Crumb didn't like New York book publishers, calling them money-grubbers and schmucks on numerous occasions. He was very agitated when Viking Press censored some of the naughtier parts of his artwork in "Head Comix." Crumb declared "It was ridiculous. They were living in the Victorian era. It made me sick dealing with them." Subsequently, Ballantine Books produced the second and third printings of the book without censorship. In 1988, Simon & Schuster printed a revised edition under their Fireside imprint, with 32 additional pages of comics and a Robert Crumb introduction replacing Paul Krassner's.

Regardless of Crumb's opinion of mainstream book publishers, "Head Comix" was certainly a landmark publication that spread Crumb's new form of comic art across America (and even the world), reaching a more diverse audience than his comic books. For many people, "Head Comix" was their first exposure to underground comics, and it doubtlessly inspired some to seek out and buy more underground comic books and even pursue a career in underground comics (the poor shlubs).

"Head Comix" also provides a representative sampling of Crumb's existing body of work, from the relative innocence of "Fritz the Cat" to the LSD-inspired "Ultra Super Modernistic Comics." Though these comics from 1965-1968 represent what Crumb calls his "innocent period," the concepts behind the signature characters of Mr. Natural, Schuman The Human, Flakey Floont, and Whiteman are well established. Overall, "Head Comix" is a terrific read of the early underground comics by Robert Crumb."

-- COMIXJOINT (Underground Comix Collection)

Sources: www.reddit.com/r/comicbookcollecting/comments/wu9ege & Pinterest.

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Mr. Natural & Flakey Foont