That Terry Zwigoff, who was friends with Crumb, made Crumb cooperate by There was a rumor, accidentally created by Roger Ebert, Robert Crumb initially did not want to make the film, but eventually agreed. Make an animated film based on his character Mr. His worries just long enough to take a phone call and reject an offer to His main concern regarding the move is about how his records will fare.Īfter the moving men cart off his collection, Robert is distracted from He invites Jesse to visit him in France, but With whom Robert has become reacquainted after abandoning his family to

Robert is shown drawing with Sophie and Jesse, his son with Dana, All three brothers mention theĪuthoritarian behavior of their father and talk about the comic booksĬharles made them make when they were children. Life in a dilapidated hotel, meditating, begging on the street, and Maxon, who has a seizure disorder he says is triggered by feelings of sexual arousal, lives an ascetic Longer draws, has never lived on his own, and takes prescription p sychiatric medications to help stabilize his mental state (he committed suicide before the film was released). (Robert's two sisters declined to be interviewed for the film).Ĭharles, who Robert acknowledges as his main artistic influence, no With his mother Beatrice, older brother Charles, and younger brother Maxon Much informationĪbout Robert's childhood is derived from scenes of him in conversation

Provide additional insights into his personality. Robert's ex-wife Dana andĮx-girlfriends Kathy Goodell and Dian Hanson Who also discuss the controversy surrounding many of Robert'sĭepictions of women and African-Americans. We learn about Robert's career through interviews with his contemporaries Don Donahue, Spain Rodriguez, Bill Griffith, and Trina Robbins, as well as critics Robert Hughes and Deirdre English, Work, and interacting with friends and family. Surroundings at cafés and on sidewalks, attending an exhibition of his He begins a speech at an art school by mentioning the three things he is probably best known for (those being the ' Keep on Truckin'' strip from 1968, the Cheap Thrills (1968) album cover, and Fritz the Cat), before spending much of the rest of the film detailing his distaste for modern American consumerist cultureĪnd his darkly cynical perspective on life. Robert Crumb, a pioneer in the underground comix movement of the 1960s, collects 78-rpm blues records from the 1920s and '30s and is moving soon with his wife (fellow comics artist Aline Kominsky-Crumb) and daughter ( Sophie) to a house in southern France that he is trading for some of his sketchbooks.

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