Waiting for Food, Number 3: More Restaurant Placemat Drawings [Hardcover]

Robert Crumb (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2004

This is the third book in successful series of occasional sketches by the grandfather of American alternative comix. These sketches reveal another side-- a contemplative side-- to the controversial artist, renowned for his taboo-breaking satires of American society. With his intricate cross-hatching and observant line, the drawings here show Crumb as an imaginative chronicler of everyday life.

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"Called "the Brueghel of the last half of the 20th century" by no less a skeptic than establishment art critic Robert Hughes, cartoonist R. Crumb has produced some of the smuttiest yet piercingly affecting and quintessentially American art since the 1960s." --Publishers Weekly

"One of the most prolific artists of his time" --Library Journal

Product Details

• Hardcover: 120 pages
• Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly; 1st edition (March 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1896597580
• ISBN-13: 978-1896597584
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 7.7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,120,299 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars "You Deserve a Break Today", March 24, 2003

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This review is from: Waiting for Food, Number 3: More Restaurant Placemat Drawings (Hardcover)

OK, I'm a Crumb fan. We ain't all, but many of us are, and I'm one of the many. Waiting For Food 3 is a beautiful collection of doodles and sketches by R. Crumb while... well, while waiting for food. This book is a collection of his restaurant placemat drawings. As R. proudly says in his intro dated July 2002, "I'm no longer simply doodling to pass the time 'til the food arrives. I'm EARNING MONEY while waiting to be served!" Good, he's having fun... he deserved it. This guy (almost) single handedly started the underground comic craze of the 60's and 70's. He started Zap Comix, writing and drawing the first two issues completely by himself. Check out crumbmuseum.com for a tribute to the Master, Robert (R) Crumb.