R. Crumb - Prophet on the Burning Shores

[Taverner]

This weekend I watched Terry Zweigoff's excellent Documentary "Crumb." God I love that movie, and Crumb is the perfect objective outsider to comment on our society.

One of the comments that really struck me was when someone passes wearing a logo t shirt he said that he didn;t understand why anyone would want to be a walking commercial for some company.

[ghostsofgiants]

1. Haven't seen that movie in ages

I remember loving it though.

[Taverner]

2. His misanthropy gels with me

[LSparkle]

3. Me, too -- isn't he an ex-pat living in France?

[Taverner]

7. Yep - sold all his scrapbooks to purchase a chateau

[LSparkle]

8. My boyfriend wanted to sell his movie poster/comic book collection

and do the same but I dissuaded him -- back in 2000. Should have encouraged him ... we could be living the "life of Crumb" now instead of suffering under the Fourth Reich.

[Taverner]

4. Some quotes

Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work.
Robert Crumb

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.
Robert Crumb

I guess I didn't enjoy drawing very much. It was like homework.
Robert Crumb

I have always had an abiding interest in that type of female anatomy.
Robert Crumb

I moved further and further away from mass entertainment. The sexual element became increasingly sinister and bizarre. Don't blame me! The bastards drove me to it! They all backed off after that!
Robert Crumb

If I didn't draw comics I was a worthless human being. It was tedious labor, so I worked fast to get it over with.
Robert Crumb

Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.
Robert Crumb

Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America.
Robert Crumb

Oh, yes. I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy.
Robert Crumb

The only burning passion I'm sure I have, is the passion for sex.
Robert Crumb

When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate.
Robert Crumb

When people say 'What are underground comics?' I think the best way you can define them is just the absolute freedom involved... we didn't have anyone

[redqueen]

6. "The only burning passion I'm sure I have, is the passion for sex."

That's sad.

[seemunkee]

5. That is one disfunctional family