![]() ![]() ![]() It sold millions of copies but Crumb earned only $600 from CBS records for drawing it in 1968. Another icon is the cover for Janis Joplin’s Cheap Thrills album. Natural “Keep On Trucking” drawings that became a well-known cultural icons in the sixties. Both sisters declined to be interviewed for the film.Įarly in the film Robert does a presentation for art school students in Philadelphia where he talks and shows slides about his early successes, like the Mr. Brothers George and Maxon both seem to have mental problems that prevent normal functioning an apparent result of childhood experiences. Robert is one of five children, two girls and three boys. He mentions the influence his brother Charles had on him, but when he calls his Mother to visit her and Charles in Philadelphia, to possibly have Charles interviewed for the documentary, his Mother tells him that Charles doesn’t want to do it. I get depressed and suicidal,” Crumb says, voice over while he’s seen creating a pen and ink drawing. Crumb seems isolated in his own world. “If I don’t draw for a while I get really crazy. The lighting in the room is subjective and high contrast. The documentary opens with a slow pan across the living/working space in Crumb’s home in California, where Robert Crumb is found sitting on the floor, knees to his chest, rocking back and forth. As a documentary film, Crumb explores the gray area of erotic art, fantasy, dysfunction, and reality of Robert Crumb at one point in his life. It is an intimate portrait of a talented artist. ![]() Crumb (Robert Crumb) and his often-bizarre, at times sexually obsessed, world. ![]()
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