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This is the sort of movie capable of prompting a viewer to question and evaluate a great deal more than the inner workings of a single man. Crumb anymore.” Considering the material, the reaction is understandable. I took my favorite hat off, this hat that I’ve had for 25 years, and I threw it off a cliff.

Upon viewing the completed version of this film, cartoonist Robert Crumb, whose story it tells, informed director Terry Zwigoff, “After I saw it I had to go for a walk in the woods, just to clear my head.

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Its style, like that of its subject, is frank, intimate and darkly humorous, full of disturbing revelations about the less-than-sane world we all live in. But the more deep seated questions raised by his probing of male-female relations are often very disturbing, considered objectionable by some and obscene by others.Ĭrumb is a portrait of an artist who has spent his life swimming against the tide. I’d take it out and look at it periodically and it got all wrinkled up from handling it so much that I asked my mother to iron it.”Ĭrumb’s work on women and sex reflects a completely frank and unfiltered take on the subject – in effect, a voyage through the male psyche with an id tour guide. I cut out this Bugs Bunny from the cover of a comic book and carrier it around with me. As Crumb states in the film: “When I was five or six I was sexually attracted to Bugs Bunny. The painful honesty of Crumb’s work is also manifest in the artist’s extreme interest in the subject of sex. I’ve been disgusted with American culture from the time I was a kid.” The instant I realized I was an outcast, I became a critic.

I saw no hope of ever connecting with anything. Crumb has said: “As a teenager, there was no place where I fit in at all. Crumb’s family life set the tone for the art that followed. In fact, the film is in many ways the story of the Crumb family a family that created three artists – brothers Charles, Robert and Max – one of whom became famous. As Robert Hughes comments, “… you come away from Crumb’s work with the feeling that you’ve seen some part of human desires, fantasies, actions, aggressions, which are all actually very truthful about the way we fantasize, dream and act toward one another.”Ĭrumb’s finely-honed skills as a social critic were born out of a youth spent in a twisted rendition of the American dream.

Crumb’s acute eye and ear render the familiar, painfully funny circumstances of life’s rich pageant with scintillating precision. Robert Crumb is a cult hero, an artist whose work is collected as fine art, and an iconoclast, a spokesperson for those who began questioning authority in the 1960’s.Īnyone familiar with his work knows that Crumb is as searing a social critic as anyone working today. Critics have come to recognize him as an extraordinary talent, and his work is now finding its way into museums. Since the early underground comic days (the first Zap comic appeared in 1968), Crumb has produced an enormous body of work and his comic work is more widely read today than ever. The second is his cover art for the Big Brother and the Holding Company (featuring Janis Joplin) lp, “Cheap Thrills” and the third is the adaptation of his randy character “Fritz the Cat” into a feature animated film by Ralph Bakshi. The first is his drawing, “Keep on Truckin'” which has adorned everything from mud flaps to coffee mugs. Crumb is best known for three pieces of work.

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