(“And I guarantee we won’t earn an extra dollar as a result of this wonderful exposure,” Aline adds in a word bubble, an observation the Crumb blog gives the lie to, nearly twenty years out.)īut in terms of what he was willing to own up to on camera, Crumb the screenwriter is far from a shrinking violet.

Fame for Crumb is a monster-making drain on creativity. Their objections ultimately lay with the notoriety the film would confer on them. It’s still a lot of fun though, perhaps more so for having been scripted by its main attraction.Ĭrumb and his wife, fellow cartoonist, Aline Kominsky Crumb, were uneasy with Zwigoff’s portrayal, a reaction they documented in Head for the Hills!, a jointly authored, two-page comic in the New Yorker. Unless you’re a virgin to the subject, The Confessions of Robert Crumb, a BBC doc whose release predated that of Zwigoff’s definitive portrait by seven years, will contain no major revelations.

Crumb, may consider themselves fairly conversant in both the art and the offbeat existence of the vintage-record-revering sexual adventurer and self-proclaimed wimp.īut does a traveler pass up the opportunity to visit Paris simply because he’s been there once before? Anyone who’s seen Crumb, Terry Zwigoff‘s 1994 documentary about underground comics legend, R.

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