Robert Crumb

Robert Crumb, AKA R. Crumb, known as "the man credited with founding the underground comics movement" (2006-03-30 SN&R page 3) used to be a resident of Winters. He was immortalized by Terry Zwigoff's documentary "Crumb" (1994), not to be confused with an earlier film "The Confessions of Robert Crumb" (1987) which Robert did of himself. In part of his book My Troubles With Women he goes to the Blue Mango and visits some other people in Davis.

He was a co-founder of the Davis newspaper The Flatlander. Original R. Crumb artwork still hangs in their office hallway and is used as the masthead for the publication.

Robert had a band, "The Cheap Suit Serenaders," in which he played the banjo.

Robert now lives in France.

For more, see the WikiPedia article on Robert Crumb. While it's still freely available online, check out the recent NYR piece on Crumb.