R. Crumb and R. Crumb and Me

The world's greatest cartoonist Robert Crumb was in Portland, Oregon earlier this week, and paid a visit to the office of a private art collector and mutual friend who also own's the original artwork to my 8-page comic strip "R. Crumb & Me". The work was originally published in Monte Beauchamp's book Masterful Marks, published by Simon & Schuster in 2014.
The comic strip is also be included in The Best Comics of 2016.  Crumb happily posed for some photos with the original art, (I had been told awhile back that he greatly enjoyed the piece), after carefully studying each page. Crumb and I go way back, I had been a regular contributer to Crumb's magazine WEIRDO back in the early/mid-eighties.

page one of the comic

page two

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All of them asked: "Norman, is that you?"

Lou Jacobi...

Maureen Stapleton & Lou Jacobi

the cast

Jack Gilford

Hans Conried...

Jesse White

Marvin Kaplin

Milt Kamen...

Huntz Hall...

Bobby Limb

Marty Davis

Gale Gordon...

Harold J. Stone

Harvey Korman...

Don Knotts...

Pat Paulson...

Al Lewis

Frank Sutton

Nick Stewart, ("Lightnin" From Amos & Andy)

John Amos (with Nick Stewart)

Godfrey Cambridge...

Harry Worth

with Freddie Lees

with Linda Bellingham

Redd Foxx (1976 film version)

unused movie poster art by Jack Rickard

http://trailersfromhell.com/norman-is-that-you/

Babcock Theatre Productions

Milton Berle

Hampton Playhouse

Special Thanks to John Wendler