"In 1968, when Robert Crumb published Head Comix, the poet Allen Ginsberg called him a "supreme funny underground comic strip incarnation of the post-historic flower age". Crumb sang the praises of LSD. If you did not take drugs, Crumb's entropic scenes could make you feel as if you did. Countless businesses pirated his images all the way to the bank. Andy Warhol was probably jealous, but he died before Crumb started making money."
"Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life by Dan Nadel, a curator and writer of comic art, reminds us how Crumb's cartoons violated whatever taboos were out there. Puritans could not purge his comics of satire and sex. Nadel also tells a wrenching story of the family that produced this rare talent and his visions. Critics still fault Crumb, who was born in 1943, for glaring sexism and racism. Cartooning would never be the same."
"Crumb's family had a gothic weirdness: a stern US Marine father; a Catholic mother who bore a stepbrother's child before marrying Crumb's father; a brilliant house-bound brother, Charles, who got Robert into comics and killed himself aged 49. Meanwhile Robert's super-thick glasses made adolescence lonely and set him up to not fit in. Nadel piles on more details, such as the moment when Robert and Charles abandoned the Catholic Church,"
In 1968 Allen Ginsberg called Robert Crumb a "supreme funny underground comic strip incarnation of the post-historic flower age." Crumb praised LSD and produced entropic, satirical scenes that could feel druglike to sober viewers. Businesses widely pirated his images, and mainstream figures such as Andy Warhol did not share Crumb’s later commercial success. Crumb’s family background featured a stern Marine father, a Catholic mother with a complicated past, and a brilliant housebound brother, Charles, who introduced him to comics and later died by suicide. Crumb developed a dark, sexualized satire after working at American Greetings, transforming cartooning while attracting accusations of sexism and racism.
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