The sketch may be Robert Crumb but I could not recognize the signature 0

[JollyComics]

It looked like Robert Crumb's sketch on the graphic paper but I can't tell who signed on that paper.

I am helping my friend to find out about that name and I need you to authenticate Robert's sketch.

Thanks for your helps.

Edited October 28, 2020 by JollyComics

[kav]

1 hour ago, JollyComics said:

It looked like Robert Crumb's sketch on the graphic paper but I can't tell who signed on that paper.

I am helping my friend to find out about that name and I need you to authenticate Robert's sketch.

Thanks for your helps.

Acid blotter paper signed by who knows who.  Not OA.

https://www.lofty.com/products/very-rare-janis-joplin-blotter-by-r-crumb-1-7drs1

[kav]

Color versions sell in the $18 range
https://www.ebay.com/itm/JANIS-JOPLIN-BLOTTER-ART-Hard-to-find-High-Quality-perforated-sheet-/293658819977?hash=item445f6dfd89%3Ag%3AdaYAAOSwnARfGN0o&nma=true&si=lqcs3tGmaCzmsUQJZtZI5sHBqBI%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

[JollyComics]

1 minute ago, kav said:

Color versions sell in the $18 range
https://www.ebay.com/itm/JANIS-JOPLIN-BLOTTER-ART-Hard-to-find-High-Quality-perforated-sheet-/293658819977?hash=item445f6dfd89%3Ag%3AdaYAAOSwnARfGN0o&nma=true&si=lqcs3tGmaCzmsUQJZtZI5sHBqBI%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

Thanks for the info.

[kav]

1 minute ago, JollyComics said:

Thanks for the info.

This site has the B & W version priced at $1500
https://www.classicposters.com/original-blotter-art/janis-joplin/poster/1101-1

[JollyComics]

5 minutes ago, kav said:

This site has the B & W version priced at $1500
https://www.classicposters.com/original-blotter-art/janis-joplin/poster/1101-1

I don't know why the blotter was signed.  I googled for Tim T - something.  I tried to find the similar name whose he may play with Janis Joplin.  Found nothing.

[iggy]

[kav]

8 minutes ago, JollyComics said:

I don't know why the blotter was signed.  I googled for Tim T - something.  I tried to find the similar name whose he may play with Janis Joplin.  Found nothing.

The only thing I can think of is the blotter is 'live' and the chemist signed it-

[kav]

Just now, iggy said:

This ups the ante considerably-the blotter is not a reprint, so $1500 base price plus the Leary sig.  Rough guesstimate $3000.

[JollyComics]

3 minutes ago, iggy said:

THAT!!!!   So he was a psychologist and writer known for his strong advocacy of psychedelic drugs?   Interesting.

Edited October 28, 2020 by JollyComics

[kav]

Sig looks 100% genuine

@James J Johnson

[kav]

 This baby has the trifecta for 3 types of collectors-Joplin, Crumb, Leary.

[JollyComics]

So much history.

[iggy]

Pretty cool, very doubtful that it’s a sketch though, most likely printed.

[John R]

21 minutes ago, JollyComics said:

THAT!!!!   So he was a psychologist and writer known for his strong advocacy of psychedelic drugs?   Interesting.

[kav]

I would list it at 5K-or more.

[JollyComics]

19 minutes ago, John R said:

My dad told me about his experience of encountering three hippies in San Francisco in 1969.  On his business trip, he was on the way to the business meeting and was encountered by them. Told him why you are so stuffed and you need to let it go and join with us.  He passed and kept walking. He turned around. They told him...you are so lost. He kept walking and didn't look back.  20 years later, I strolled with my ex-girlfriend near Golden Gate Park and I noticed those people in 50 something sitting on Hippie Hill smoking joints with their older kids - my age! That was 25 years ago.  The legend is still going on.

Edited October 28, 2020 by JollyComics

[kav]

4 minutes ago, JollyComics said:

My dad told me about his experience of encountering three hippies in San Francisco in 1969.  On his business trip, he was on the way to the business meeting and was encountered by them. Told him why you are so stuffed and you need to let it go and join with us.  He passed and kept walking. He turned around. They told him...you are so lost. He kept walking and didn't look back.  20 years later, I strolled with my ex-girlfriend near Golden Gate Park and I noticed those people in 50 something sitting on Hippie Hill smoking joints with their older kids - my age! That was 25 years ago.  The legend is still going on.

Our family went camping at Stinson beach in SF in 1968-we met some hippies and spent the day with them.  We also then had hippie neighbors and it was awesome.  The hippies back then were nothing like the hippies today-they were smart, and self sufficient.  They didnt want anything from anybody.

[kav]

Ps weird coincidence-I just got an assignment to draw a DANGERS OF WEED retro style ad:

[oldmilwaukee6er]

1 hour ago, kav said:

This site has the B & W version priced at $1500
https://www.classicposters.com/original-blotter-art/janis-joplin/poster/1101-1

Obviously it's Crumb from the Big Brother & the Holding Co album, but I remember these blotter acid sheet art coming out in the mid 90s thru venues like Art Rock. They repopped several designs and then had Leary, Burroughs & Hoffman sign. Here's an article from the LA Times.