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Born on August 30th, 1943, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Robert Crumb is one of the most influential and divisive comics artists of all time, with as many followers as detractors. So which Crumb is the real one? The artistic genius or the pervert?

This screenshot from the newspaper that decried Robert Crumb as a "sex pervert" and his art as "smutty" -- prompting the cancellation of his trip to the Graphic Festival in Sydney, Australia -- leaves us wondering when we can expect a similarly outraged, alarmist op-ed from author Jesse Phillips about the smutty, perverted news coverage of The Daily Telegraph...

Whether or not you draw inspiration directly from his work or indirectly from its raw expression of free speech, the influence of 67-year-old underground comix icon and The Book of Genesis adaptor Robert Crumb is impossible to ignore. On July 31 the creator received some decidedly negative attention in advance of a visit to Sydney from Australia's The Daily Telegraph, which called Crumb as a "

While we at ComicsAlliance tend to focus our world-weary minds on the more imaginative, awe-inspiring and perhaps childish material produced in the comics medium, the art form has of course been the conduit through which far more subversive, humorous and tantalizing statements have been made...

Toys: Upcoming Hasbro box art teases "the big three" kicking it Avengers style...in action figure form, at least. Movies: Lost composer Michael Giacchino may be lending his scoring skills to Captain America: The First Avenger. Retail: Better use your huge 33-50 percent off coupons while you can, Borders doesn't seem to be in awesome shape...

I am very fond of custom toymaking. It's a practice that can yield some wildly imaginative results when expertly executed, or at least some laughable ones when handled by a less capable artist. Today's entry falls firmly in the former category...

Robert Crumb's illustrated version of the "Book of Genesis" is out, and it's incredible, and guess who's upset about it. Christians! The amazing part about this particular controversy is that instead of getting up in arms about comics with gay people in them or Japanese cartoons with comedic nudity, they're actually upset with the Bible, and it is blowing my mind...

Hippies. God bless em, they really think a lot of themselves, don't they? Isn't it great when fuzzy ole Uncle Hippie gathers the brood down to the biodegradable teepee for tall tales of the Sixties? "Pot and acid grew on lampposts!" he preaches. "Flowers stopped bullets! I pleasured Joni Mitchell with an Abba Zabba!" Wow, awesome, Uncle Hippie! You ruined drug enforcement, sex

Harvey Pekar of "American Splendor" fame is not known for his technological savvy, but he's finally making his way to the internet courtesy of SMITH magazine, where a series of webcomics called "The Pekar Project" just launched. The first installment adapts a conversation between Pekar and another indie legend, Robert Crumb, about avant-garde art and the recent libretto that Pe

-- An oldie but goodie: Philip K Dick fans will love this graphic interpretation of a series of events from Dick's life, created by R. Crumb. -- As we've seen with the Green Lantern fan-trailer that blew our minds just a few weeks ago, sometimes the fans have really got it going on ­ this can be further seen on ComicBookMovie.com...