![]() He started drawing when he was older, and the sudden release of passion resulted in an epileptic seizure. ![]() As he got older, everything he drew was decorated in endless loops. Crumb is known for his meticulous cross-hatching and immaculate ink lines, whereas Charles developed a "wrinkled" style. There is an obsessive-compulsive trait to both of their aesthetics: R. He's got stacks of the fancy books he and Charles put together, trading story lines and ideas, developing their unique style. ![]() Can't say I blame them, lord knows what was done to them in that household when they were young.) All three boys possess a natural ability for art, though it was Charles who literally forced them into comic books, particularly Robert, who saved the fruits of their labor all these years. (Two sisters refused to participate in the movie. Robert is the middle child, and the youngest is Maxon. Crumb's rise to infamy as a satirist and counter-culture cartoonist, the full image doesn't really come into frame without the other boys. Though a good portion of it does chronicle R. "How perfectly goddamned delightful it all is, to be sure," is suddenly "As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again."Ĭrumb is a two-hour perusal of the Crumb family photo album. Imagine Robert Crumb and his brothers standing on a hillside, the sun setting in the sky behind them, at the end of an old Hollywood movie. There is something strangely American in how off center this American clan is. The underlying meaning is that what Robert liked was stupid and liking it made him an idiot.Īnd yet, it could also be the Crumb family motto, and it need not be as sardonic as all that. That quote was a favorite phrase of the older brother's, and he would say it to deflate any happiness his younger siblings might find in anything that struck their fancy. The artist says no, he never sees Charles or his mother, and the interview session reminded him why. Zwigoff had asked Robert if he would miss his family or otherwise felt bad about leaving them. Robert and his wife Aline Kominsky were preparing to move to France at the time, a fitting end to the filmmaking schedule. Though Charles Crumb is credited with the phrase, Robert Crumb is the one who shares it with Zwigoff, having scribbled it at the top of a drawing he made to illustrate the anxiety the filming process had been causing him. ![]() The fact that Zwigoff composes the film with such attention to detail, and yet absent of even a whiff of judgment, has made it one of the most compelling documentaries of our times, as well as one of the most perceptive and illuminating examinations of both the perils and giddy joy of the creative life. What had started out as a film about legendary underground cartoonist Robert Crumb ended up not just a portrait of the artist as a middle-aged man, but of his family as well. It is so packed with meaning and says a multitude of things with such poetic economy, Terry Zwigoff had to know immediately upon hearing it that it would serve as ideal punctuation for the epilogue of his 1995 documentary Crumb. There is so much loaded into the above statement by Charles Crumb, that one can't help but immediately seize on it. " How perfectly goddamned delightful it all is, to be sure." ![]()
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