Robert Crumb

Acquired directly from the artist
Thence by descent to the present owner

In good condition. Correction fluid at figure's waist. Slight discoloration to edges. Corners bumped and upper left corner has light crease. Upper edge hand-cut.
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Between 1977 and 1986, Boyd Jacobson worked to produce a movie from his script based on R. Crumb's "Whiteman Meets Bigfoot," which was first published in 1971 in Home Grown Funnies.  Jacobson, who directed television commercials, hoped to direct the movie himself.  At a few different times, Crumb produced drawings to accompany Jacobson's script, and the following four lots come from this set of drawings.  As the basis for a feature film, Jacobson's script expanded on Crumb's initial comic, so Crumb's drawings often illustrate new scenes in the narrative.  The complete nature of the drawings show Crumb's enthusiastic engagement with the project as he re-visited the story based on Jacobson's script.  In 1988, Crumb worked with Terry Zwigoff (who later directed the documentary "Crumb" in 1994) on another script based on the same story, but neither screenplay was ever produced.