I sent Robert some old political cartoons on crumbling paper from 20’s-30’s & some extra sheets of the plain parchment which had beautiful tan sheen like I ran the first ZAP on. I had remembered the old comics I found in Lawrence of Andy Gump & another one of The Katzenjammer Kids that had red cardboard covers & inside black in on newsprint. The forward on one was written by Mayor LaGuardia & on the other a forward by Enrico Caruso. I put them in my mom’s basement in Wichita. When she died my Christian relatives cleaned out her house & threw them away as “dirty” I’m sure. They were sort of same format as these drawings! I wrote on the plain paper I sent to Robert with pen, pencil, & a pen that writes on slick stock as an experiment. I told him Gerard [Malanga] always prefers lead pencil on photos & that some old beams in attic were signed in carpenter pencil & held up good, but I like black ink on this stock. I signed it as “The Chresmologue”. I said he should draw something on the paper & we could pass it off as 1930 original. Haha! Today Pam got these at the P.O. !! cp<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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<\/a>Portrait of Charles Plymell \u00a9 R. Crumb [2018] Portrait of William S. Burroughs \u00a9 R. Crumb [1985] Water Row Press. The portrait of William S. Burroughs was commissioned and originally published by Water Row Press<\/a> in Massachusetts. It was issued in 1985 as “Meet the Beats Poster Number Two”<\/a> and printed in a limited edition of 100 numbered copies by Tabula Rasa Press, as were two other “Meet the Beats Posters” by R. Crumb — of Jack Kerouac<\/a> and of Allen Ginsberg<\/a>.
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