Alex Steinweiss may be the father of the modern album cover, but Robert Crumb is its favorite weird uncle. Though best known as a pioneer of the underground comix movement, the subversive artist had long been fascinated with the music of the 1920s and 1930s—jazz, big band, swing, blues, cajun—so when, in 1968, Janis Joplin asked him to design the cover for her album Cheap Thrills, it was the beginning of R. Crumb's prolific second career illustrating hundreds of covers for artists emerging and legendary.
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