A scathing satirist with eccentric - some say misogynist - sexual tastes often depicted in his work, he moved to southern France in 1991 with second wife Aline Kominsky-Crumb, 46, also a cartoonist, and their daughter, Sophie, now 13. Natural, Fritz the Cat, ”Keep on Truckin’,” and other underground cartoon icons. But in February 1993, one year after being interviewed for Crumb, he committed suicide at the age of 50. Filmmaker David Lynch once talked of writing a screenplay for Charles to star in. Crumb shows him to be a highly articulate depressive and a recluse in his mother’s home. Crumb and his family (including his two brothers) and his outlook on life. She now lives alone outside Philadelphia.Ī gifted cartoonist as a child, Charles pushed his siblings into art. Crumb is a 1995 American documentary film about the noted underground cartoonist R. Portrayed as a one-time amphetamine freak. He’s remembered in Crumb as a ”sadistic bully” who, in a rage one Christmas, broke 5-year-old Robert’s collarbone. He was inducted into the comic book industry's W.
Madness, drugs, sexual perversity - if not for the redemptive power of art, you’d have met this clan on Geraldo:Ī career Marine and businessman who died at 68 in 1982. Robert Crumb is an American cartoonist and major contributor to the underground comix movement in the 1960s. Tolstoy believed that all unhappy families are different, but there’s none quite so different as the one we meet in Terry Zwigoff’s brilliant new documentary, Crumb, about seminal underground cartoonist-godhead Robert Crumb and his deeply dysfunctional family.
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