Artist Maxon Crumb (2011)

Maxon Crumb is an American artist and the younger brother of underground cartoonist Robert Crumb and Charles Crumb, and the uncle of Sophie Crumb. Maxon Crumb initially started painting as a way to deal with his own personal demons. He has subsequently managed to earn money from his art. He still resides/works in a fleabag hotel, and still maintains an extreme spartan diet -- "only plant food" -- and an ascetic spiritual practice that includes long, holy-man treks to Bolinas Ridge, where he sits in lotus position for 12 hours at a time.