The band's third album featured folklorist and guitarist Bob Brozeman. Over the next six years, the band recorded three albums: The Cheap Suit Serenaders!, Number 2 (reissued as Chasin' Rainbows in 1993), and Number 3 (reissued as Singin' in the Bathtub the same year). Armstrong and mandolinist Allan Dodge, Crumb formed the first version of the Cheap Suit Serenaders in 1972.
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The following year, movie producer Ralph Bakshi acquired the rights to Fritz the Cat and produced the first X-rated feature-length film. A strip in Zap #4, "Joe Blow," caused several comic stores to be busted on obscenity charges in 1969. With its pro-drug, pro-free love emphasis, the illustrated magazine was highly provocative. After living temporarily in New York and Chicago, he moved to San Francisco in 1967 and launched Zap Comix. Inspired by the experience, he shifted his artwork to reflect the growing hippie culture. A turning point came in 1965 when Crumb experienced his first trip on LSD. Two years later, he married Dana Morgan and drew the earliest version of Fritz the Cat for Cavalier magazine. In 1962, Crumb accepted a job drawing greeting cards for American Greetings Corporation in Cleveland. As a child, he spent hours drawing comics and was heavily inspired by Mad magazine. and his wife, Crumb started drawing comics at the age of three. The third of five children born to career Marine Charles Crumb, Sr. A clawhammer-style banjo player and vocalist, Crumb led his band, the Cheap Suit Serenaders, through three albums of tongue-in-jowl, early 20th century string band and jazz ditties. Comics, however, represented only one side of Crumb's eccentric persona.
His illustrations often graced the covers of record albums, including one for Big Brother & the Holding Company's Cheap Thrills. Natural, Flakey Froont, and the Vulture Demoness, and his underground comic books, such as Zap Comix, combined elements of social commentary and the British tradition of caricature.
His characters, including Fritz the Cat, Mr. A zany sense of humor fused by a psychedelicized vision made Robert Crumb one of the most influential comic artists of the 1960s.
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