Charles Crumb was the elder brother of Robert Crumb, the notorious cartoon artist whose provocative work gained popularity in the 1960s and has inspired an international cult following ever since. Due to apparent psychological disorders, throughout most of his adult life, Charles rarely ventured outside the Philadelphia home that he shared with his mother. His afflictions also manifested themselves in his artistic output, as in the Mead composition book held in the Sackner collection. Displaying the tendency toward horror vacui that accompanies certain types of mental illness, every line on every page of the notebook is filled with small, densely packed lines of jagged, faux handwriting; ten of these pages are rendered in pencil, the rest in blue ink. The inside front cover features two graphite drawings of men’s heads, as well as a linear abstract composition in pencil. The inside back cover contains 21 graphite drawings of men’s heads.