Refinished Tu 1/11/22
This is an old hardback that I got from Quality Paperback Books on Th 6/26/05 and 'finished Memorial Day Weekend after a trip on The Shadow to Shawnee National Forest- Tu 6/31/05.
NOTES FOR 'R. CRUMB HANDBOOK':
I finished in a couple of evenings.
"Children are afraid of the dark and adults are afraid of the light"
"It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society."---Krishnamurti
Always a loner and felt like an alien.
Very close to his older brother, Charles. They made comics together from the time they were young children.
Charles committed suicide and suffered his whole life from mental illness.
One of his first jobs was with a greeting card company; commercial art skills.
From a lower class family; no money for school.
"Lurid Exaggerated" "Lowbrow and Rough"
Disturbing things that are in the human psyche.
One of the chapters is called 'In the army of the stoned'. A nice title for anything.
"Some people don't know what a metaphor is, so for those people a myth is a lie"- Joseph Campbell
He comes across as a man who is deeply disgusted with American culture that is very similar to Charles Bukowski.
He and his second wife live in France since the early 90's.
When I finished the book this time I watched a 25" interview with Robert Crumb on YouTube.
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