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January 2, 2020 08:16 pm PST

Rare new video interview with R. Crumb

Legendary underground cartoonist R. Crumb in a rare video interview recorded a few months back during the Louisiana Literature festival at Humlebk, Denmark's Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. From a summary of Crumb's comments:

I was so alienated when I was young, that drawing was like my only connection to society. That was the only thing that I could see was going to save me from a really dismal fate of God knows what. Crumb describes his social skills as a young man as being completely nil. At the same time, he was driven by his fucked-up ego, and he had to balance those two sides. Drawing became a way for him to deal with reality, and in the 1950s, where being a comic-book artist was the lowest level of commercial art, he pushed toward a more personal use of the medium: At a certain point I decided I dont want to be Americas best-loved hippie cartoonist. I dont want that role. So Ill just be honest about who I am, and the weirdness, and take my chances. Consequently, Crumb alienated a lot of people with his often provocative content: It was just too disturbing for most people, too weird.

Crumb has an urge to question things and is acutely aware that hes going to get hell for what hes doing even lose friends but he is willing to take the heat for it. He feels that he plays with images, emphasixing the word play. Nowadays, he argues, theres a tendency to take everything at face value including his artwork: The artwork I did that used those images and expressed those kinds of feelings, I stand by it I still think that thats something that needed to be said and needed to be done It probably hurts some peoples feelings to see those images, but still, I had to put it out there.

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