The vibrant joy of Robert Crumb's album covers

The cult cartoonist's artwork for various artists has a vividness and oomph that is almost like music in itself'Yeah I'll do your album cover, but the only thing is, when I meet Janis, I want to be able to pinch her tit." It was not perhaps the most conventional pact, but legend holds that this was how Robert Crumb accepted the invitation to illustrate his first album cover – for Big Brother and the Holding Company's 1968 long-player Cheap Thrills. The cover itself shows the band's singer, Ja...

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