![]() Sometimes, children of famous parents seem to struggle if they move into the same professional field as their parents. I was surprised to find out that you were so young. I interviewed her back in February, and that e-discussion becomes Mr. I look forward to BBC #2, and I hope she remains in comics. I enjoyed BBC, especially the short tale, "Eddy Bear."Īlthough Sophie has told other interviewers that she doesn't consider herself a professional artist, she is as good as many pro cartoonists. I certainly am willing to lie when put in the position to do so, but thankfully Sophie didn't let me down. I love her father's work, and I didn't know if I could be fair. ![]() In addition to art, Sophie is a musician and has trained at a circus school and toured France with a traveling circus.Īfter I first received Sophie's comic BBC #1, I was trying to find a way to avoid reading or reviewing it. Zwigoff also directed the 1994 film, Crumb. In Terry Zwigoff's 2001 film adaptation of Daniel Clowes' graphic novel, GHOST WORLD (also the title of the film), Sophie's drawings and watercolors are used in the sketchbook of lead character Enid (played by Thora Birch). However, this isn't the first time we've seen Sophie's art. Oog & Blik of The Netherlands publishes BBC in Europe. Sophie has also joined the family business when Fantagraphics published her comic BELLY BUTTON COMIX #1 in early January of this year. She's Sophie Crumb, the daughter of acclaimed cartoonist Aline Kominsky-Crumb and Underground comix legend and one of the most well-regarded comic book artists in the history of the medium, R. Crumb's comics for at least the last two decades, you've seen a cartoon representation of her as a toddler or as an independent Parisian teen. If you've been a regular reader or devotee of R. He was surrounded by so many who loved him, he did not suffer.You may have seen her in the film CRUMB. 5 says, “Jesse passed away last night around 8p. Joseph Hospital whom he married in 1999.Īn update to the GoFundMe campaign published on Jan. “eople came out of the wood work after the film…that was great.real ego rush, lots of money was made…I sold all the artwork I had done to that point, Sketch books…portraits…now I am frozen, have been for a few years.(coming out of it now.finally…starting to paint).”Īccording to a GoFundMe campaign launched after the accident, Jesse Crumb was headed south on New Year’s Eve to meet up with his wife and high school sweetheart, Erica Detlefsen, a nurse at St. from Eureka…every week,” he wrote in 2005. “I now spend 6 hours driving to therapy in S.F. More than a decade after the movie’s release, Jesse Crumb apparently wrote a customer review of the DVD on Amazon, calling it “one of the best documentaries ever made” but also saying it took a toll on his mental health. ![]() Though he wasn’t close with his dad growing up, the two appeared together in the excellent 1994 documentary Crumb, directed by Terry Zwigoff. More of his art, including what appears to be an illustration of the Samoa Bridge and Woodley Island, was included in a 1998 book called Crumb Comics: The Whole Family is Crazy! He was flown to Mercy Medical Center in Redding, where he died three days later, according to a brief obituary posted online.īorn to Robert Crumb and Dana Morgan in 1968, Jesse Crumb was an artist in his own right, producing a series of portraits of Beat Generation artists in the mid-1990s. 101 and collided with a 2003 Ford F350 headed in the other direction, as Kym Kemp reported last week. We’re a few days late on this news, but local acquaintances of Jesse David Crumb, son of renowned underground comix artist Robert Crumb, alerted us to the fact that the 49-year-old Eureka resident succumbed to injuries he sustained in a head-on collision near Phillipsville on New Year’s Eve.Īt about 5:18 that evening, Crumb’s 1998 Toyota Tacoma crossed over the center line of Hwy. Jesse Crumb drawing with his father in a screenshot from the 1994 documentary Crumb, directed by Terry Zwigoff. ![]()
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