‘R. Crumb: The Complete Record Cover Collection’
New book features illustrator’s music-related work


Reprinted from R. Crumb: The Complete Record Cover Collection. Copyright © 2011 by Robert Crumb. With the permission of the publisher, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Well-known as a lover of old records, the satirical cartoonist Robert Crumb has collected his work on album covers and musicians' portraits in a new book, R. Crumb: The Complete Record Cover Collection. The artist spoke to Rolling Stone by phone from the south of France, where he has lived for the past two decades.
By James Sullivan