Despite having apparently a very traumatic childhood,this man is not afraid of exposing every dark,demented corner of his mind for the whole world to see,that requires a lot of guts,he is awesome
I actually met mr crumb in the summer of '68 - I was in SF for the summer as a little kid and was drawing cartoons and eating sandwiches on haight ashbury - we colored together & traded drawings - thanks!
👆 Mr Originality! He thought his moronic comment was SO profound, he felt compelled to post it over and over...lol. If ignorance is bliss, you must be experiencing absolute Nirvana!!
@@wonderrob3225 Anybody who tells me, I was drinking with some people at a bar who said they're going to San Francisco; do you want to come along? and he does. I don't care if he is a racist and a shitty person; right there is an interesting story.
He lived thru some turbulent times. I just realized he was the artist of my Keep on Trucking posters from the 1970s and that Janis Joplin cover. I am 64. Wow . I am blown away.
I read a snippet where Crumb explains his first LSD trip in more detail. His first ex wife suggested they take it after getting it from a family psychiatrist. They each took 600 micrograms of Sandoz LSD, equal to about 6-8 hits of today's acid. 2 hits of Microdot commonly available in the 60s. They took it with Orange Juice in the morning and Crumb said he could never drink the stuff ever again. Crumb vomited on his wife, who was hysterical about feeling "reborn". When crumb returned to work at the greeting card company, he felt the language of others around him shifted to feel more "hostile" and "intrusive". Crumb was also completely drained and sickened with the overly cutesy style he worked in. He was probably so overwhelmed by what happened, and he couldnt put any of it into words.
I appreciate Robert Crumb because he helped me figure out why I shouldn't marry any of the ones that came along. And I appreciate my father, because he introduced me to Crumb, Aragones, Vallejo, Speigelman, Bakshi, Kirby, and Barks.
I watched the award-winning documentary Crumb many years ago and loved it. I'd like to read some of his collected graphic work, especially those listed in the 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die reference book, but his books tend to be very expensive.
Yes I heard of comic artist Robert Crumb. He comes that generation of underground comics and he is also a musician. He comes from the Beatnik and Hippie culture. His comics contains social statements. I came across his art work on several occasions. Some of comics were made into movies. The on and only comic I know that was made into an adult animated feature film and still controversial was, Fritz The Cat. Robert Crumb is the Guru of underground comics. His comics are available online and also on other multimedia outlets
Crumb is amazing and beyond prolific. Some day he may really be recognized. He has fans, worldwide of course, and x-amount of notoriety, but he's the Picasso AND Rembrandt of America (plus a whole lot more, because of his writing) for nearly half a century - and I'm always amazed at how many people are unfamiliar with him.
@@Straightjacket154 A nation spends more than 3/4 of a trillion dollars on the machinery of war & death, while millions of children live in poverty, but lewd cartooning is your idea of arch villainy! 😝
I did the same thing. I married the first one that came along. Like Crumb, we had nothing but our desperation in common. We were actually happy the first three years. The trouble was, we stayed married for eight years. 😉
Same here, trouble is we are still here 45 years later. I never got to take that lsd trip I always wanted. Probably would have freed me. She's watching re-runs of Peyton Place, while I'm thinking about jumping off a cliff.
Crumb puts it all out for the world to see. How many of us can say the same about all the strange thoughts and weirdo shit that goes through our heads. Hell I think most of us would be committed if anyone knew the strange and weird that has passed through our minds in the past.
@@wonderrob3225 Translation: You don't know Jack Shit about art and never wiil. Art is merely expression that often evokes "The Conversation", but a moron like you could never conceive such a thing...
We used to buy them at a record store called Strawberry Fields records in Waukegan, illinois--- Then, they were promptly taken away from us in high school when the teachers caught us reading them in class!!!!! I always wondered what THEY did with them afterwards!!??!!
One could also say his father was a hard worker, who upheld the values that kept his nation his nation. Also, look at all that wonderful, productive activity going on around that lay about chanting mmmmmmm. (there are different ways to view this)
Robert and I tried acid for the first time in '65, when it was still Legal. Went on a retreat in the Oakland Hills in '67 once and dropped with Leary, life changing for sure.
For me that's something of an apples and oranges type of comparison. I really can't imagine Woody committing himself to doing something on the scale of The Book of Genesis for instance.
Despite obvious flaws in 50s America, I cannot deem the present times much more enlightened. Nuclear war still beckons, the internet has proved to be toxic, people find new ways to hate. Things may be getting better, but it's too volatile. Crumb himself left American to live in France, he couldn't take it anymore. And I liked the media of 50s America more. It was easy to laugh at, but it was perhaps more sincere, as well as false, creating a nice frisson.
If you're smart enough and exposed enoigh, you'll probably be damaged. The world's damaged and anyone who can see it fully will have some issues. Red pill or blue pill type thing
As a guy who loves to draw my favorite edit is when hes editing the comics with his friends. The cartoonist close to the page, hyper focused, feverish pace. Then they lean back while sighing to have a look at the progress. In the zone totally being like Mr. Natural.
Oh man I can't believe this. I have always been loved this guy ever see once be I was a bit out 10. In 1967. I could go on. To some it up I turned out alot like him. Thanks alot! Gee boy I think like this guy somewhat. Mr Natural. Oh man! TOO MUCH! Thanks for putting a big smile on my face on my 66th birthday 11/29/56
I relate to this guy on so many levels. Don't know if I like him all the time but I'm sure he feels the same and I dont like myself all the time either. We really are simular models
I rather have this guy next to me at a bar talking about what goes on in his mind than the typical person. Why oh why is there such a lack of interesting people.... sigh.....
"Never a mainstream artist he never liked mainstream comics, his work was not for everyone I don't know why but everytime I looked at any of his comics as a kid I got a headache for some reason, they just weren't for me,but years when I looked at them I no longer got headaches instead I would start laughing and couldn't stop but not because they were funny but because I couldn't believe they ever existed in today's world comics like his would be obsolete,ha ha ha."-😆🌐📖🌐.. ."-🤔🖥🇺🇲🌐..
@@09nob God what a weird movie Ghost World was. RIP Brad Renfro. And wow ScarJo was so young and looked nothing like her current and highly-sexualized Black Widow self. Thora Birch is basically the same character she was in American Beauty, a niche that she really cornered in the late 90's/early 00's. Strange movie, but strangely brilliant. It's stuck with me for 17 years now since I saw it in 2003, I'll never forget it.
@@VisionQuest057 Indeed Renfro was a good actor I love Apt Pupil he was great in that and yes agreed on Thora she was best in this and American Beauty (more because it was good and she glowed under it's reflected glory) she was varying degrees of jesse eisenberg naff before Jesse was even a twinkle in the eyes of naffness. I love the film and own a copy and watched the bollox off of it back in 2003 ahh halcyon days when the US was still making a lot of good indie flics. But why I was asking is because Terry Zwigoff directed the notorious Crumb documentary but he also directed Ghost World and the Steve Buscemi character in it was created by Zwigoff for the movie and although not exactly like Crumb i'd say there's enough Crumb in the character to have to be a loose homage to the man? which brings a certain symmetry to the above comment if i'm right and if i'm wrong it's just a waste of tipee tapping on this infernal keyboard.
When you go to travel into the nightmare, then you were a child. Get away from the mind. Great success getting back to the old time's. Driving, drawing this cartoons.
That collective! A place where men can commune with no interference. The freedom of assembly is as important as freedom of speech and the right to bear arms!
You don't have to play the cards life deals you. You can continue to draw from the deck. Until your last breath and who you believed will determine your final destination.
Actually the Crumb's created character "White Man" is Robert Crumb himself down deep. All his created characters are Robert Crumb himself in all different dimensions of his personality.
I grew up at the same time but never could I ever tolerate drugs of any kind or that hippie long hair lifestyle. Even the music, I hated. Today, I'm just as glad I never got into it and took to the restoration of an old car as my guidance to stay straight. And now I'm also into the classsic rock of the late '50s, early '60s when the theme was simply love.
Amen, Brother Crumb! My first ride on Green Pyramid was like giving a starship to a fighter jock. Pure Magic. But, alas, I also realized that this planet had to be some kind of funky penal colony. Or a Nuthouse. Jury is still out on that one.....
wow! wow! wow! I knew I had some thing that intrigued me to this man. When I heard that first statement aoiut how he drew sexual characters and flushed them down the toilet my heart stopped because I used to do the same thing but when I was 13 and drew and drew and drew all day long. WOW! and I thought I was sick for doing that!
To be or not to be, that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler {in the mind} to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune; or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them. Life can be cruel and absurd. Man must Endure in his comming as in his going hence, Ripeness is all. the rain it raineth every day. Do what makes you happy, even if it's critical. Hey, you never know.
@@wonderrob3225 Both of those statements are untrue. Portraying something in art isn't celebrating it. Art is partly a sublimating of the dark parts of the mind that everyone has (if they're courageously honest with themselves). Exposing and playfully examining them keeps them at bay and unable to fester. I don't know what to say if you're not a fan of Carl Jung and his shadow concept.
@@krunkle5136 HMMM , I might just be speaking with another artist . Well, then make stuff Brother/sister, make it with all yer heart . I give myself the same advice
I grew up on Rip Off Press comics, man. I even visited their publishing house in San Fran back in the 80’s or 90’s; just as depicted on the back of one Weirdo issue.
what kids of the 60's didnt understand about the people of the 50's is, they had been through horrible times in the 30's and 40's, and were just desparate for 'normality'. That, I think is a big part of the explanation for the white bread culture they were reacting against.
I’m a black man that has ALWAYS worshipped Crumb’s output, but I wish he’d be more Frank and honest and admit he doesn’t give a f#ck about hurting anyone’s feelings with how he projects races and beliefs and the objectification of women. I love that his bottom line is to “just put it out there” because true honest expression is the definition of art-but this whole thing about “not wanting to hurt anyone’s feelings” is bullish#t. He wants to come across as kind and sensitive but the material he wants to put forth is the epitome of that. Expressing in his art that black people are damn-near illiterate and just wanna “kill whitey” is more fulfilling to him than explaining why black people have generally been restricted from moving to safer and clean environments and living in decent school districts where law enforcement truly has an interest in protecting them instead of treating them worse than animals and why black people have reason to feel resentment towards the white man for centuries. He likes to reflect upon the politically INcorrect aspect of America because it raises eyebrows, it gets attention, it’s funnier and it’s naughtier. So, again, if projecting his true and honest and unfiltered self is the most important thing to him, why be dishonest about your concern for hurting and misrepresenting others? That’s not courage. That’s the OPPOSITE of courage.
Despite having apparently a very traumatic childhood,this man is not afraid of exposing every dark,demented corner of his mind for the whole world to see,that requires a lot of guts,he is awesome
...it's like humility by default...
He turned it into a strength, and that is amazing.
A courageous explorer of the human condition.
His childhood caused his troubles.
I actually met mr crumb in the summer of '68 - I was in SF for the summer as a little kid and was drawing cartoons and eating sandwiches on haight ashbury - we colored together & traded drawings - thanks!
He's brutally honest about his life and what he thinks. 👍
👆 Mr Originality! He thought his moronic comment was SO profound, he felt compelled to post it over and over...lol. If ignorance is bliss, you must be experiencing absolute Nirvana!!
Crumb is such a great story teller. I love listening to him as well as taking in his his visual art.
@@wonderrob3225 You don't know a thing about me, for which I'm grateful.
@@wonderrob3225 Oh? I didn't know fear is the objective.
@@wonderrob3225 I did not know that. Me, I just like a good story.
@@wonderrob3225 Anybody who tells me, I was drinking with some people at a bar who said they're going to San Francisco; do you want to come along? and he does. I don't care if he is a racist and a shitty person; right there is an interesting story.
And then he meets Janis Joplin and draws an album cover for her? Yes, then what?
He lived thru some turbulent times. I just realized he was the artist of my Keep on Trucking posters from the 1970s and that Janis Joplin cover. I am 64. Wow . I am blown away.
Mr. Natural!
he lays his soul bare, in all of its depravity and woundedness for the world to see. if that is not courage I dont know what is.
Well he is, if nothing else, a very interesting study of the damaged male mind and self esteem.
Well, he admits he's exposed himself that way because of LSD. Not sure it's courage, it could well be that drugs deprived him of good judgement.
Being honest with yourself about what you see is more courageous than just observing it. Sometimes he did that. Sometimes.
I read a snippet where Crumb explains his first LSD trip in more detail. His first ex wife suggested they take it after getting it from a family psychiatrist. They each took 600 micrograms of Sandoz LSD, equal to about 6-8 hits of today's acid. 2 hits of Microdot commonly available in the 60s.
They took it with Orange Juice in the morning and Crumb said he could never drink the stuff ever again. Crumb vomited on his wife, who was hysterical about feeling "reborn".
When crumb returned to work at the greeting card company, he felt the language of others around him shifted to feel more "hostile" and "intrusive". Crumb was also completely drained and sickened with the overly cutesy style he worked in. He was probably so overwhelmed by what happened, and he couldnt put any of it into words.
the worst problem of the world is that intelligent people are full of doubts, and idiots are not
like they dont believe in moon landing they doubt they landed
Yep. Yeats said something very similar about 100 years ago. Some things never change.
Makes me wish i was an idiot
@@rickyspanish2857 lol, sometimes
@@onlythewise1 , actually they’re SURE it didn’t happen......
I love Art Crumb and I grok him, man. From the first sight of his art work, I was enthralled. Because I understood him and his humor and his smarts.
Loved this guys’ art. An American icon in his own right.
I appreciate Robert Crumb because he helped me figure out why I shouldn't marry any of the ones that came along. And I appreciate my father, because he introduced me to Crumb, Aragones, Vallejo, Speigelman, Bakshi, Kirby, and Barks.
Man, what a dad.
I watched the award-winning documentary Crumb many years ago and loved it. I'd like to read some of his collected graphic work, especially those listed in the 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die reference book, but his books tend to be very expensive.
I Remember his artwork and slogans absolutely everywhere. Defined my youth. I love it lock stock and barrel
Yes I heard of comic artist Robert Crumb. He comes that generation of underground comics and he is also a musician. He comes from the Beatnik and Hippie culture. His comics contains social statements. I came across his art work on several occasions. Some of comics were made into movies. The on and only comic I know that was made into an adult animated feature film and still controversial was, Fritz The Cat. Robert Crumb is the Guru of underground comics. His comics are available online and also on other multimedia outlets
Crumb is amazing and beyond prolific. Some day he may really be recognized. He has fans, worldwide of course, and x-amount of notoriety, but he's the Picasso AND Rembrandt of America (plus a whole lot more, because of his writing) for nearly half a century - and I'm always amazed at how many people are unfamiliar with him.
So prolific I had never heard of him before this video.
The fact that you can idolize a pervert like him says volumes about you.
@@Straightjacket154 A nation spends more than 3/4 of a trillion dollars on the machinery of war & death, while millions of children live in poverty, but lewd cartooning is your idea of arch villainy! 😝
I have a small drawing of him he personally drew for me. Really one of my price possessions
How much?
I did the same thing. I married the first one that came along. Like Crumb, we had nothing but our desperation in common. We were actually happy the first three years. The trouble was, we stayed married for eight years. 😉
...same...but for 14 years...
well, so did i, and had good years, and a few rough ones, then settled into just fine for the rest. not always a disaster. 33 yrs so far.
@@dont-want-no-wrench: I did better my 2nd time around. 35 years into my 2nd marriage. 💖
Same here, trouble is we are still here 45 years later. I never got to take that lsd trip I always wanted. Probably would have freed me. She's watching re-runs of Peyton Place, while I'm thinking about jumping off a cliff.
The situation today is far more crazy than even Robert could have imagined, no matter how much acid he dropped!
“ This being married is a little bit suffocating”
i remember him back in 1975, i liked his work
Crumb puts it all out for the world to see. How many of us can say the same about all the strange thoughts and weirdo shit that goes through our heads. Hell I think most of us would be committed if anyone knew the strange and weird that has passed through our minds in the past.
Ever notice how everyone personally involved with Robert starts to talk like him?
@@wonderrob3225 Translation: You don't know Jack Shit about art and never wiil. Art is merely expression that often evokes "The Conversation", but a moron like you could never conceive such a thing...
Always loved Crumb's work ; great to hear it in his words at last .🙂
“...shabby, flat, cardboard reality.” Great description.
Used to buy all the zap comics. Such an icon of an artist.
We used to buy them at a record store called Strawberry Fields records in Waukegan, illinois---
Then, they were promptly taken away from us in high school when the teachers caught us reading them in class!!!!! I always wondered what THEY did with them afterwards!!??!!
"Heal, HEAL... HEEALLL..L!!!!!" 😝
This documentary is a riot. Thank God for Crumb!
One could also say his father was a hard worker, who upheld the values that kept his nation his nation. Also, look at all that wonderful, productive activity going on around that lay about chanting mmmmmmm. (there are different ways to view this)
That's exactly (to a T) what i was thinking while watching this. Damn right!
being 100% honest in the public eye is something very hard for most ppl to do...i think he came pretty close, if not all the way
By the way,i have enjoyed your work since the late 1960s. Head shops in OKLAHOMA city in 1970s were full of your posters. Thank you.
Michael Thomas Sane here.
Who are you talking to?! Crumb doesn't have anything to do with this video except he is the subject of it...
When I was 13 years old I looked at the Comics from Crumb. My Uncle had the Comics here in Germany during the seventies. I loved them.
I love this guy, I wonder why I didn't discover him sooner
It's always the talented genius that are deemed weird.
and all the other 99,9% of psychotic failures, haha
sleeping pills in the chicken soup....ohmygod this man's life...
Love all the things Crumb does. It's the crumbs I get from life's left overs, quite frankly.
“I must maintain this rigid position or all is lost” (Robert Crumb’s father) 😂🤣🤣🤣
Turns out he was right. And it was.
Or Whiteman
Robert and I tried acid for the first time in '65, when it was still Legal. Went on a retreat in the Oakland Hills in '67 once and dropped with Leary, life changing for sure.
The only difference between Robert Crumb and Woody Allen is the amount of time one spent drawing about his hangups instead of analyzing them.
For me that's something of an apples and oranges type of comparison.
I really can't imagine Woody committing himself to doing something on
the scale of The Book of Genesis for instance.
That was woody Allen's 'persona' but if you watch his intervies he was quite different, more of the brash obnoxious type.
Their names are also different. Among one or two other things.
So that's where we got the ...."Keep on Truckin", poster.
Yepper !
"Fat bottom girls make the Rockin' world go 'round!"
WTF?!
#facts I love "fat bottom" girls
It is a good song. Thanks for reminding.
Correct ,but they are so damaged
Despite obvious flaws in 50s America, I cannot deem the present times much more enlightened. Nuclear war still beckons, the internet has proved to be toxic, people find new ways to hate. Things may be getting better, but it's too volatile. Crumb himself left American to live in France, he couldn't take it anymore. And I liked the media of 50s America more. It was easy to laugh at, but it was perhaps more sincere, as well as false, creating a nice frisson.
I miss his comic books to this day...
I'm 72 years old
The song we hear is The Flower Children, a late '60s hit by the late Marcia Strassman, better known as Julie Kotter on Welcome Back Kotter.
She was also Nurse Cutler on MASH.
Thanks
Crumb was friends with Janis Joplin??? He speaks about it like she was just some random roommate or something.
In the documentary about him made about 20 years ago he goes into more depth about his friendship with her.
@odeerg she was probably just a quick ride a quick serial release and vice versa I would assume that's all it is at the end of the day
She really was pretty random back in the day...before she became a legend...
This guy has a big big soul.
Crumb, like so many of us, is damaged goods.
creatornat thats awful.
Noomi Blumquist i dont think he meant to be mean but its true. Almost all of the greatest people would be considered damaged
Unlike most of us, he's a visionary genius and one of the greatest artists in history.
The modern Hogarth as some critic once said.
If you're smart enough and exposed enoigh, you'll probably be damaged. The world's damaged and anyone who can see it fully will have some issues. Red pill or blue pill type thing
I like how this story is told here better than in Crumb. Its good too but a tad to slow.
As a guy who loves to draw my favorite edit is when hes editing the comics with his friends. The cartoonist close to the page, hyper focused, feverish pace. Then they lean back while sighing to have a look at the progress. In the zone totally being like Mr. Natural.
Oh man I can't believe this. I have always been loved this guy ever see once be I was a bit out 10. In 1967. I could go on. To some it up I turned out alot like him. Thanks alot! Gee boy I think like this guy somewhat. Mr Natural. Oh man! TOO MUCH! Thanks for putting a big smile on my face on my 66th birthday 11/29/56
I got Mr. Natural tattoo on my arm in 1974, because I was such a fan.
"Definitely a feast before a starving man."
His wife is gorgeous.
HUEnshiro do Norte ... No HE IS!!
That's what I thought. Why would she marry him?
@@charlesrast4235 did you not listen ?0:34
low standards
Not really. She's average
remote viewing will change your life, too
"Breathe Deeply & Relax Completely (Dick Sutphen)....You can now See Things from a Distance....etc."
His reacting to LSD.... I got this 3 years ago, and it's still here. I never took LSD, but it's exactly the same..
PoetryAddict8 thats odd. Is it still there?
I relate to this guy on so many levels. Don't know if I like him all the time but I'm sure he feels the same and I dont like myself all the time either. We really are simular models
Tuesday I found crumbs on my shirt from a brown loaf of fresh bread and today I find out who Mr. Crumb is. I now want his comics!
I rather have this guy next to me at a bar talking about what goes on in his mind than the typical person. Why oh why is there such a lack of interesting people.... sigh.....
Lmao sooooo true dude weirdos have the best stories
99% of peeps today are totally boring and self-absorbed...
Depends where you drink. 😉 Some of us think.
Perhaps interesting people steer clear of you?
There are interesting people everywhere
2:45 what the hell was that. made me laugh my ass off though.
That would be one-time televangilist Ernest Angley.
Robin Williams used to imitate him from time to time in the 1980s.
haha thanks.
I've wondered who you were for 60 years! Now I know. You've always impressed me with your talent. Ever since Fat Freddy and his Cat. Carry on, sir.
I love how he describes his first love as a fat alienated lonely girl 😂
Brutal honesty!!😁😂 gotta love it!!
@@jasonkaramo5937 Or just rampant misogyny?
I have two originals that Crumb painted and drew to me and gave me as a trade for 150 78rpms mostly 1920s jazz, one of my most loved possessions
"Never a mainstream artist he
never liked mainstream comics,
his work was not for everyone
I don't know why but everytime
I looked at any of his comics as a kid
I got a headache for some reason,
they just weren't for me,but years
when I looked at them I no longer got
headaches instead I would start laughing
and couldn't stop but not because they were
funny but because I couldn't believe they
ever existed in today's world comics like
his would be obsolete,ha ha ha."-😆🌐📖🌐..
."-🤔🖥🇺🇲🌐..
@arthurrro2u It's "The Flower Children" by Marcia Strassman. She later became an actress and was Kotter's wife on "Welcome Back Kotter."
Show me a genius and I'll show you crazy, show me crazy and I'll show you a genius.
👍🏻Good stuff, thanks for sharing.
crumb is phenomenal !
we are alike in a way.
i love curvy bigger bottomed peeps too.
He looks just like Flakey Foont in that wedding photo. All is explained.
He's GREAT...!
Man, after seeing Rex Humbart I think I understand Crumb's work a lot better...
00:30 i am so charmed by this man's candor - Fortunate are those bound by the grace of fate intervening with desperation
Young Crumb reminds me of Steve Buscemi from In The Soup.
Have you seen Ghost World?
@@09nob God what a weird movie Ghost World was. RIP Brad Renfro. And wow ScarJo was so young and looked nothing like her current and highly-sexualized Black Widow self. Thora Birch is basically the same character she was in American Beauty, a niche that she really cornered in the late 90's/early 00's. Strange movie, but strangely brilliant. It's stuck with me for 17 years now since I saw it in 2003, I'll never forget it.
@@VisionQuest057 Indeed Renfro was a good actor I love Apt Pupil he was great in that and yes agreed on Thora she was best in this and American Beauty (more because it was good and she glowed under it's reflected glory) she was varying degrees of jesse eisenberg naff before Jesse was even a twinkle in the eyes of naffness. I love the film and own a copy and watched the bollox off of it back in 2003 ahh halcyon days when the US was still making a lot of good indie flics. But why I was asking is because Terry Zwigoff directed the notorious Crumb documentary but he also directed Ghost World and the Steve Buscemi character in it was created by Zwigoff for the movie and although not exactly like Crumb i'd say there's enough Crumb in the character to have to be a loose homage to the man? which brings a certain symmetry to the above comment if i'm right and if i'm wrong it's just a waste of tipee tapping on this infernal keyboard.
used to play his records all the time in the early 80's
When you go to travel into the nightmare, then you were a child. Get away from the mind. Great success getting back to the old time's. Driving, drawing this cartoons.
That collective! A place where men can commune with no interference. The freedom of assembly is as important as freedom of speech and the right to bear arms!
You don't have to play the cards life deals you. You can continue to draw from the deck. Until your last breath and who you believed will determine your final destination.
I love listening to real people 🤗
Love how he refers to American Greetings (2nd largest in the world) as "a local greeting card company"
Actually the Crumb's created character "White Man" is Robert Crumb himself down deep.
All his created characters are Robert Crumb himself in all different dimensions of his personality.
Genius such insight
for a 'wimp' a wife, girlfriend and Aileen HE THE MAN!!
His life story sounds like how my life would probably play out
No
Roisin Dubh
ok :(
Jacob Kinsley then fix your shit. check out Jordan B Peterson
Tim Colla People don't need Peterson to fix their lives. They need perspective, and self-awareness. Its not hard.
Great doc.
I grew up at the same time but never could I ever tolerate drugs of any kind or that hippie long hair lifestyle. Even the music, I hated. Today, I'm just as glad I never got into it and took to the restoration of an old car as my guidance to stay straight. And now I'm also into the classsic rock of the late '50s, early '60s when the theme was simply love.
Jim Ervin wow you sound like a lot of fun ...
@@joshtoth423 serially not!
Smart man. Glad you made the right choices.
You missed the bus, dude. It must suck to be you. 😔
Late reply, but good choice! +1 car restoration!
I love his art work.
Ha, hahahaha.... "I would do secret drawings of all my sex fantasies, then tear them up and flush them down the toilet."
Amen, Brother Crumb! My first ride on Green Pyramid was like giving a starship to a fighter jock. Pure Magic. But, alas, I also realized that this planet had to be some kind of funky penal colony. Or a Nuthouse. Jury is still out on that one.....
Thanks JP
That vile bully at his school who is the most popular person in the school suns life up.!!!!
What I was living in was a tragic farse
And I couldnt ever figure out why anyone would live that way
__Welcome to psychedelics__
wow! wow! wow! I knew I had some thing that intrigued me to this man. When I heard that first statement aoiut how he drew sexual characters and flushed them down the toilet my heart stopped because I used to do the same thing but when I was 13 and drew and drew and drew all day long. WOW! and I thought I was sick for doing that!
Amazing person
that stepford wive-lives depiction is pretty horrifying
To be or not to be, that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler {in the mind} to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune; or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them. Life can be cruel and absurd. Man must Endure in his comming as in his going hence, Ripeness is all. the rain it raineth every day. Do what makes you happy, even if it's critical. Hey, you never know.
"I must maintain this rigid position or all is lost!"
@@wonderrob3225 Both of those statements are untrue.
Portraying something in art isn't celebrating it.
Art is partly a sublimating of the dark parts of the mind that everyone has (if they're courageously honest with themselves).
Exposing and playfully examining them keeps them at bay and unable to fester.
I don't know what to say if you're not a fan of Carl Jung and his shadow concept.
@@wonderrob3225 I kinda agree, if I made dishonest art, it wouldn't be worth it.
Either way, I hope your day gets better.
@@krunkle5136 HMMM , I might just be speaking with another artist . Well, then make stuff Brother/sister, make it with all yer heart . I give myself the same advice
@@wonderrob3225 god speed.
I grew up on Rip Off Press comics, man. I even visited their publishing house in San Fran back in the 80’s or 90’s; just as depicted on the back of one Weirdo issue.
This is thinking about life in a real sense with our God.
I searched out whatever of Crumbs stuff I could find when I was around 14-16
what kids of the 60's didnt understand about the people of the 50's is, they had been through horrible times in the 30's and 40's, and were just desparate for 'normality'. That, I think is a big part of the explanation for the white bread culture they were reacting against.
I bought my mom Crumb's illustrated Book of Genesis. It was technically accurate but the pictures were typically Crumb..
Videos usually go over better when you don't mumble when you narrate them.
I’m a black man that has ALWAYS worshipped Crumb’s output, but I wish he’d be more Frank and honest and admit he doesn’t give a f#ck about hurting anyone’s feelings with how he projects races and beliefs and the objectification of women. I love that his bottom line is to “just put it out there” because true honest expression is the definition of art-but this whole thing about “not wanting to hurt anyone’s feelings” is bullish#t. He wants to come across as kind and sensitive but the material he wants to put forth is the epitome of that. Expressing in his art that black people are damn-near illiterate and just wanna “kill whitey” is more fulfilling to him than explaining why black people have generally been restricted from moving to safer and clean environments and living in decent school districts where law enforcement truly has an interest in protecting them instead of treating them worse than animals and why black people have reason to feel resentment towards the white man for centuries. He likes to reflect upon the politically INcorrect aspect of America because it raises eyebrows, it gets attention, it’s funnier and it’s naughtier. So, again, if projecting his true and honest and unfiltered self is the most important thing to him, why be dishonest about your concern for hurting and misrepresenting others? That’s not courage. That’s the OPPOSITE of courage.
A true genius