R. Crumb And His Cheap Suit Serenaders

Comics and 78 rpm records were the twin poles around which the Cheap Suit Serenaders coalesced. Robert Crumb was (and is) one of the most famous underground cartoonists of all time, having nearly invented the genre. Robert Armstrong was also active in the San Francisco Bay area underground comics scene, producing such comics as Mickey Rat and The Couch Potatoes. Finding that Crumb also liked music from the '20s and '30s, Armstrong pulled in old friend Al Dodge and the troika began playing for fun. While on a combined busking/78-hunting trip across the United States, the grou...