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	Robert Crumb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Crumb was a founder of the underground comics movement, and is often regarded as the most prominent figure in that movement.
		Crumb created and edited the Weirdo alternative comics anthology in the early 1980s, and he remains a prominent figure, as both artist and influence, within the alternative comics milieu.
		Crumb's role in that film was portayed by James Urbaniak.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Crumb (988 words)

	R. Crumb: Dangling from the Wings of Madness
		Since Crumb is an intensely private man, most of these artists end up writing a quick vignette concerning a meeting with Crumb on a street corner and throughout the rest of the essay they drone on in nausea-inducing detail about their own work and life.
		Crumb himself describes his childhood as "grim." He grew up in the "projects" of Philadelphia with his two brothers, Charles and Maxon, and two sisters (who refused to be interviewed for the film).
		Crumb admits that he was attracted to Bug Bunny as a child and later became fixated on Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.
	www.altreel.com /offbeat-cinema/R-Crumb.html (1582 words)

	CRUMB - Production Notes
		Robert Crumb is a cult hero, an artist whose work is collected as fine art, and an iconoclast, a spokesperson for those who began questioning authority in the 1960's.
		Crumb's finely-honed skills as a social critic were born out of a youth spent in a twisted rendition of the American dream.
		CRUMB is a glimpse into the psyche of one of America's foremost artists.
	www.sonypictures.com /classics/crumb/misc/notes.html (1285 words)

	Crumb (1994) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Crumb is sometimes hilarious, often depressing and always entertaining – a rare combination in a documentary film.
		Crumb escaped the mental illness that ended both his brother's careers as artists (Charles was equally as talented), but otherwise had a perfectly miserable childhood and adolescence.
		But Crumb has always considered himself to be an outsider and enjoys the feeling of `being very removed or extremely separated from the rest of humanity and the world in general'.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0109508 (622 words)

	R. Crumb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Crumb went to Cleveland in the early '60s and got work at a greeting card company, where he perfected his cute bigfoot style.
		Crumb, Terry Zwigoff's 1995 prizewinning documentary on the cartoonist and his dysfunctional family, enshrined Crumb as a national treasure.
		Robert Crumb was born in 1943 in Philadelphia.
	statweb.stat.pitt.edu /stoffer/Crumb.html (1265 words)

	Review: Crumb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Crumb's claim to fame is founding the underground comics movement in 1967, when issue #1 of his "Zap Comix" was released.
		Crumb is also the creator of the "Keep on Truckin'" logo, the artist for the LP cover of Big Brother and the Holding Company's Cheap Thrills, and the originator of Fritz the Cat, which Ralph Bakshi turned into the first X-rated animated feature (a film that Crumb hates).
		Crumb is a rare and powerful documentary that completely absorbs the viewer and leaves an impression so blindingly clear that the afterimage cannot be blinked away even when the theater is far behind.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/c/crumb.html (840 words)

	Salon Brilliant Careers \| R. Crumb
		Robert Crumb was born in Philadelphia on Aug. 30, 1943, to a Marine father and a devout Catholic mother.
		Maxon is the film's purest comic relief -- a late-blooming artist of genuine talent, his other hobbies include attempting to molest Chinese women on the street, pulling women's pants down in department stores, sitting on nails for hours on end and eating long cords of rope that take three days to shit out.
		Crumb's anti-consumerist ideals are definitely '60s vintage, but he can't seem to decide whether he misses the decade or loathes its memory.
	www.salon.com /people/bc/2000/05/02/crumb/print.html (3074 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Robert Crumb, the gawky underground comic artist, bizarre fetishist, affirmed misogynist, and brilliant manipulator of the comic as cultural diatribe, is presently in the unusual position of being the subject, not the creator, of a piercing and disturbing work of art.
		The person whose presence is most strongly felt throughout the film, although he never appears, is that of the dead father, a tyrannical and abusive ex-marine who terrorized the children and drove the mother to drug addiction.
		The film features narrated shots of Crumb's earliest work eschewing the false security of 1950's America, his hilarious but estranged depictions of dope-filled Haight-Ashbury flower children of the 60's and 70's, and muttering criticisms of America of the 80's and 90's.
	www.saturn5.com /~jon/crumb.html (1105 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		CRUMB is a film that says little more that Robert Crumb is very hung up on the fact that everyone has an animal side and that his bizarre humor comes out of these obsessions.
		Crumb could be as weird as he wants us to think he is, or it could be in part a joke or even a publicity stunt.
		The film does make some interesting points when it suggests that the image of the wholesome family--the "Leave it to Beaver" family--that was considered the ideal in the Fifties--may have been a reaction to WWII in that people found the stable family reassuring.
	www.cc.gatech.edu /computing/classes/AY2005/cs6300_fall/projects/project5/movies/38/3841 (1189 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts special reports \| Inteview: Simon Hattenston talks to Robert Crumb
		Crumb also chronicled the life of the ultimate wimp (R Crumb), the misanthrope (R Crumb), the dysfunctional family (the Crumbs).
		The film put Crumb's life in context - yes, his foot fetish, his piggyback fixations and his urge to dominate big, dominant women (in a pretty submissive way) were weird, but not half as weird as those of his two brothers.
		The strangest thing was that he had agreed to the film in the first place, but then again Zwigoff was a friend and Crumb never expected a little movie about himself to be an international success.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/crumb/story/0,15829,1431884,00.html (3170 words)

	FILMMAKER MAGAZINE \| Spring 1995: Drawing On The Edge Of Madness
		Crumb’s mother, a reclusive packrat, appears occasionally; his two sisters declined to be interviewed for the film.
		Crumb’s cartoons found their popularity because they seem to tap right into the artist’s fecund unconscious, which, pushed by LSD experiences, is a hallucinatory mirror of male fear and desire.
		Crumb, his wife, Aline, who is also a cartoonist, and their daughter now live in France, in a move that takes place in the last part of the film.
	www.filmmakermagazine.com /spring1995/madness.php (1963 words)

	filmcritic.com Movie Review: Crumb
		This new film by Terry Zwigoff is an eye-popping shocker, delving unflinchingly into questions of Crumb's hatred of females, questions of racism, his traumatic childhood, and his extremely twisted family.
		Crumb's family are the most enthralling of these characters, especially his two brothers.
		The film starts to drag during some of the comic book readings and during interviews with other characters who aren't quite as enthralling, but overall the film is extremely worthwhile.
	www.filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/ddb5490109a79f598625623d0015f1e4/a28dbbe0bd222c76862562ee0081a214?OpenDocument (404 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts special reports \| Roll right up, folks!
		Crumb is a cottage industry, and a tiny cottage at that.
		Then tastes changed; Crumb became more desirable in the artworld, not because of pop art, but because of the enormous influence on collectors and museum people of the "dumb" figuration of the late, great Philip Guston, which was itself largely based on comic strips such as George Herriman's Krazy Kat.
		What counts for Crumb, and should continue to count for his fans, is that he gets on with what has always been, for him, the immediate job at hand: continuing to make the kind of drawings that his mother and father would never, not in a month of Sundays, have allowed him to see.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/crumb/story/0,15829,1431910,00.html (1429 words)

	Crumb Movie: Crumb DVD is available from Bestprices.com
		CRUMB traces the lives of underground cartoonist Robert Crumb and his extraordinarily dysfunctional family.
		As children, the three Crumb brothers escaped from their abusive home by indulging in an imaginative life centered on comic books, but Robert is the only one who has fashioned any sort of normal existence.
		The film was a 1995 runner-up for the best picture prize by the National Society of Film Critics.
	www.bestprices.com /cgi-bin/vlink/043396106994IE (334 words)

	Terry Zwigoff's Crumb: Chronicle of a postwar American family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Crumb himself, best known for his underground drawings and comics of the late 1960s ("Keep on Truckin", the cover art for Janis Joplin's "Cheap Thrills" album, Fritz the Cat, etc.), is of limited interest.
		The problem with Crumb is not that he holds "incorrect" views or is dominated by "unhealthy" desires, but that he doesn't adopt a sufficiently self-critical attitude towards his emotional life or his art.
		But it is the fate of the Crumb family, whose story emerges bit by bit through the comments of Robert and his two brothers (two sisters declined to be interviewed), which haunts the spectator.
	www.wsws.org /arts/1998/aug1998/crum-95.shtml (968 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Crumb (xhtml)
		"Crumb," which is one of the most remarkable and haunting documentaries ever made, tells the story of Robert Crumb, his brothers Max and Charles, and an American childhood that looks normal in old family photographs but conceals deep wounds and secrets.
		"Crumb" was directed by Terry Zwigoff, who had two advantages: He had known Crumb well for years, and Zwigoff was himself so unhappy and suicidal during the making of the film that in a sense Crumb let him do it as a favor.
		Yet as I left the film, I felt that if anyone had earned the right to express his own vision, it was Crumb, since his art is so clearly a coping mechanism that has allowed him to survive, and deal with his pain.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19950526/REVIEWS/505260302/1023 (709 words)

	deseretnews.com - Movie review: Crumb \| Deseret Morning News Web edition
		The result is a film that is at once harrowing and hilarious, tragic and euphoric and always dark and disturbing.
		And there are also moments that may send certain audience members running from the theater, such as a section of the film that deals with Crumb's dabblings with pornography, in particular a graphic comic book that jokingly portrays an "Ozzie and Harriet"-style family that casually employs incest.
		The film is rated R for profanity and nudity, as well as violent, sexual and nude cartoons.
	deseretnews.com /movies/view/1,1257,388,00.html (421 words)

	R. Crumb: Conversations
		Crumb's illustrations have appeared on the covers of albums by Big Brother and the Holding Company, on bootlegged T-shirts, and in several underground newspapers.
		In these Crumb proves to be iconoclastic, opinionated, and--despite his celebrity--impervious to the commercial moods of the public.
		Crumb appears alternately as neurotic, witty, acerbic, gentlemanly, cruel, verbose, and reticent.
	www.upress.state.ms.us /catalog/spring2004/r_crumb.html (253 words)

	BBC - Storyville - Crumb
		Crumb is, to my mind, one of the most unusual films ever made about a living artist.
		He was able to film with Crumb's eccentric family - among them the brother who only sleeps on beds of nails.
		Crumb himself is a peculiar character: self-obsessed (we're told he masturbates at least three times a day), misanthropic and, despite all this, strangely charming.
	www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/documentaries/storyville/crumb.shtml (129 words)

	miaminewtimes.com \| \| Film \| R. Crumb,What's the Frequency? \| 1995-07-06 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Crumb is basically two hours of intensive analysis of the groundbreaking artist (Time magazine art critic Robert Hughes calls him "the Brueghel of the Twentieth Century") and his wacked-out family as seen through the eyes of colleagues, critics, family members, ex-lovers, and R. Crumb himself.
		Nothing is spared, from harrowing tales of the artist's father's physical abuse and his mother's amphetamine addiction to the length of Crumb's penis, his offbeat sexual predilections, and even the frequency with which he masturbates.
		As children all three Crumb boys (according to the film's postscript, two sisters declined to be interviewed) drew comics together, demonstrating artistic promise and the early stages of a severe case of sibling rivalry.
	www.miaminewtimes.com /issues/1995-07-06/film.html (1103 words)

	Crumb (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Crumb is a 1994 documentary film about the noted underground comic artist R.
		Directed by Terry Zwigoff, it won widespread acclaim, including the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
		The tagline for the film is "Weird Sex, Obsession, Comic Books"; and while it is certainly full of all three, Crumb is considered a moving film about the experiences and characters of the Crumb family, particularly Robert Crumb's brothers, Maxon and Charles (his sisters declined to be interveiwed).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Crumb_(film) (115 words)

	Comic Art & Graffix Gallery Artist Biographies - Robert Crumb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In 1970 Crumb sold the film rights to Fritz the Cat to film animator Ralph Bakshi and was released as an X-rated film to international acclaim, and another Fritz movie was made, but Crumb is known to have voiced his displeasure with both films, and disowns them.
		This had become a popular image of the hippie counter-culture and Crumb collected royalties for years, but a suit emerged challenging Crumb's copyright which hads never been registered and in 1977 a federal judge ruled that Crumb had let the image fall into the public domain, freeing pirates from any further royalty payments to Crumb.
		Crumb is one of those partially responsible for the lifting of previously unchallenged theorum of the "Father Knows Best" era.
	www.comic-art.com /bios-1/crumb001.htm (772 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Features \| Win tickets to the see Robert Crumb at the NFT
		From psychedelic counter-culture hero to darling of the art establishment, Robert Crumb is one of America's most notorious and influential underground artists.
		Crumb's celluloid connection started in 1972 with Ralph Bakshi's animated feature of his randy creation, Fritz the Cat; Crumb reportedly hated the film.
		To celebrate the publication of The R Crumb Handbook, an illustrated memoir co-written with fellow comic artist Peter Poplaski, Robert Crumb will appear at the National Film Theatre for a rare onstage interview with Guardian cartoonist and Crumb fan Steve Bell.
	film.guardian.co.uk /competitions/page/0,13349,1433747,00.html (263 words)

	Crumb Film Review - Time Out Film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Crumb was an unlikely hero of the '60s counter-culture, but strips like Fritz the Cat, Mr Natural and Keep on Truckin' made him the toast of Haight-Ashbury.
		More interesting still is his later, confessional work, analysed and berated in the film by a series of female comic pundits and ex-girlfriends.
		So far, so good, but when focusing on Crumb's relationship with his two brothers the documentary occasionally goes off the rails to become a prurient, though undeniably fascinating, freakshow.
	www.timeout.com /film/69911.html (188 words)

	Crumb offers a poignant portrait of a tortured artist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The film starts out on a hilarious note, showing Crumb drawing portraits of the girls he once liked in high school.
		Crumb once lost a copyright lawsuit over "Keep on Truckin'," his most famous work placed on everything from truck mudflaps to coffee mugs.
		Crumb felt that society had rejected him when he was young, and he sought revenge by becoming famous.
	www-tech.mit.edu /Issue/V115/N26/crumb.26a.html (653 words)

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		Crumb and his characters are widely identified with the hippie movement, and he concedes that many of his ideas grew out of experiments with LSD, he never lived the hippie life style.
		Crumb "the Bruegel of the 20th century." That may be overstating it.
		Crumb's work present a vision of American life as a phantasmagoric gallery of grotesques that is as gripping as it is harshly funny.
	web.nwe.ufl.edu /~ronan/comics/CrumbBio.html (5849 words)

	CRUMB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Terry Zwigoff's new film "CRUMB" is an intimate portrait of the underground artist Robert Crumb.
		It is also a creepy, darkly funny, and haunting glimpse into the capriciousness of fate in the workings of a single family -- the Crumb family.
		Shot over a period of six years, "CRUMB" uses unexpurgated interviews with the artist, his family, colleagues, critics, and ex-lovers, along with footage of his work, to paint a riveting picture of this artist's obsessions, and of the powerful visions he has created with them.
	www.sonyclassics.com /crumb/crumb.html (126 words)

	Terry Zwigoff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		His inspiration for the film came when he discovered a 1934 recording by an unknown artist.
		Crumb was another film laced with personal experience, as Zwigoff had known Robert Crumb for over twenty-five years, published several of his comics in the 1970s and played in Crumb's band, The Cheap Suit Serenaders.
		Zwigoff co-wrote the film with Clowes, and they were nominated for an Oscar® for Best Screenplay based on previously published material.
	www.tribute.ca /DIRECTORS/BIOS/6088.htm (252 words)

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