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[changeling]

Okay, I saw Ghost World last week, and on the cover of one of the old '78 albums I'm sure I saw the name R. Crumb, who as far as I know never recorded anything, but on the contrary was a great underground cartoonist.

A Salon article I found while confirming my assumptions also adds this:

In an essay from "The R. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book," the artist describes his passion for old 78s that began when he heard "Happy Days and Lonely Nights," a 1928 record by Charlie Fry's Million Dollar Pier Orchestra. Enthusiastically, Crumb avows his love for this old music and other artifacts of the era. The essay is titled: "To Be Interested in Old Music Is To Be a Social Outcast!"

I'm almost certain that this allusion to Crumb is deliberate on th part of Daniel Clowes (who wrote the comic book and co-wrote the screenplay), as the character of Seymour doesn't exist in the comic.

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[gadge.livejournal.com]

The director of Ghost World's previous film was called 'Crumb', and was a documentary about the artist and his intensely weird family. He also co-wrote the script with Daniel Clowes.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

I knew he'd co-written the script with Clowes, but I hadn't thought of looking at the two through IMDB. Stoopid me. :)