Maxon Crumb
{{Short description|American artist}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1945|03|28}}
| birth_place = Albert Lea, Minnesota, US
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| field = Painting, drawing, writing
| works = Crumb Family Comics, Maxon's Poe, HardCore Mother
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Maxon Joseph Crumb (born March 28, 1945, in Albert Lea, Minnesota){{cite book |last=Davis |first=Carol Anne |date= 2006|title= Sadistic Killers: Profiles of Pathological Predators|publisher= Summersdale Publishers| isbn= 978-1840245813}} is an American artist and the younger brother of underground cartoonist Robert Crumb and Charles Crumb, and the uncle of Sophie Crumb.
Biography
Maxon Crumb was born in 1945, the third son of Charles and Beatrice Crumb. His early work can be found in publications such as Weirdo, Liquidator,{{cite web|url=http://www.word-play.com/books/liquidator.html |title=Liquidator Magazine |publisher=Word-Play.com}} Maxon's Poe (1997), and Crumb Family Comics (Last Gasp, 1998).[https://comics.lib.msu.edu/rri/crri/crumb.htm Index to Comic Art Collection: "Crumb, Aline" to "Crumb, Robert" (A-K titles)], comics.lib.msu.edu. Accessed December 1, 2022.
His first published novel, HardCore Mother (2000), was a study of incest and sadism. After its publication in 2001,{{cite web|url=http://www.word-play.com/books/hardcore.html |title=HardCore Mother |publisher=Word-Play.com}} his work found a wider audience.{{cite web|url=http://www.word-play.com/art/maxon |title=Maxon Crumb Original Art |publisher=Word-Play.com |date= |accessdate=2009-01-25}}
Maxon Crumb was featured in the documentary Crumb,Guthmann, Edward (May 26, 1995). [http://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/FILM-REVIEW-Exposing-the-Nerves-of-Crumb-s-3032310.php "Exposing the Nerves of Crumb 's Tortured Soul - Film profiles underground artist of '60s"]. San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2012-11-17. about his brother, Robert.
Art practice
Maxon Crumb initially started painting as a way to deal with his own personal demons. He has subsequently managed to earn money from his art.{{cite news |author=Edward Guthmann |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/03/DDGU7L4D4F59.DTL |title=Still in the shadows, an artist in his own right |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |date=2006-10-03 |accessdate=2009-01-25}}
His paintings and ink drawings can take weeks or months to complete. During this time, Maxon says that he will enter into an intense creative state where the work becomes paramount, to the detriment of normal everyday concerns, including eating.
Maxon Crumb's drawings are available online as well as fine art limited-edition prints.{{cite web|url=http://www.word-play.com/art/maxon/index.new.html |title=Maxon Crumb Current Works |publisher=Word-Play.com |date= |accessdate=2009-01-25}}
Personal life
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In addition to his brothers Charles and Robert, Maxon also had two sisters, Carol DeGennaro (1941–2020)[https://www.fhnfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Carol-Degennaro/#!/Obituary Obituary; Carol Veronica Degennaro], fhnfuneralhome.com. Accessed December 1, 2022.{{cite magazine|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|title=A new documentary focuses on Robert Crumb -- Crumb highlights the cartoonist's dysfunctional family|author=Lovece, Frank|date=June 2, 1995|authorlink=Frank Lovece|url=http://www.ew.com/article/1995/06/02/new-documentary-focuses-robert-crumb}} and Sandra Colorado (1946–1998).
Maxon practices celibacy and has done so for many years because, as he has explained in interviews, for him, sex triggers epileptic seizures.
In the 1994 documentary Crumb, Maxon Crumb admitted to a history of sexually assaulting women.{{Cite web|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1995-06-23-1995174169-story.html|title = Grotesque, seedy and perverse such is life in 'Crumb'| date=23 June 1995 }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ildp0VWFLrc|title = Maxon Crumb molesting story|website = YouTube}}
{{bquote|I'd see Maxon Crumb sitting on Market Street, cross-legged with his bowl in front of him.{{Cite web|url=https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/2007-chef-du-cinema-crumb|title=Chef du Cinema: Crumb|first=Ron|last=Deutsch|website=The Criterion Collection|accessdate=2020-05-09}}|author=author Ron Deutsch}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=5&entry_id=9270 'The Maxon BackStory' Podcast], SFGate.com
- {{Cite web|url=https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Still-in-the-shadows-an-artist-in-his-own-right-2487551.php|title=Still in the shadows, an artist in his own right|first=Edward|last=Guthmann|website=SFGate|date=3 October 2006}}
- [http://www.tcj.com/kicks/ review of Malcolm Whyte’s illustrated biography of Maxon], Art Out of Chaos (F.U. Press. 2018
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Category:20th-century American painters
Category:American graphic artists
Category:21st-century American painters
Category:21st-century American novelists