R. Crumb's America
by Crumb
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Book Summary Information
Author: CrumbEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1995-10
ISBN: 0867194308
Number of pages: 64
Publisher: Last Gasp
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Summary: 3 Stars
This book is a review of R.Crumb's opinion of the USA over a period of 35-odd years, going back to the Vietnam/Civil rights protest era. As such, it includes some of his most hilariously objectionable & outrageous strips, pieces and characters, e.g., Flakey Foont, Anglefood McSpade, Fatback, Whiteman, and Lenore Goldberg and her Girl Commandos. The chunks of Crumb narrative vary from recent (2000-2008) ecotopia-themed polemics to old-fashioned 8-pager-style cartoon pornography, including a personal favorite: "Hi-lites of Detroit", an unusually straightforward presentation of what I assume are R. Crumb's Motor city haunts(his home base is Cleveland).
The older sections are the more objectionable ones. I first started paying attention to him in 1971, with the appearance of Zap Comics, and, in my 20's, with the Sixties still fresh in everyone's mind, R. Crumb was the perfect pallate-cleanser; a strong dose of cynicism to counter the B.S. that the Nixon administration was calling "truth". Thirty-five years later, Crumb has shifted to a wider target, to wit, from American society and politics to society and politics in general. If you are interested in Crumb, warts and all, this will do him proud. If, on the other hand, you are new to his brand of humor, this may be a bit strong. Crumb has never found it necessary to prune his vocabulary to suit any audience, Jewish, hispanic, caucasian or African-American.
Summary of R. Crumb's America
Collecting his political drawings and another series of thematic anthologies from the Grand Master of modern comix. From the right-on 60s and 70s to the bitterness and disillusion of the 80s and ending with the futility of fighting the all powerful system, Crumb covers a variety of political attitudes while retaining his anti-Establishment opinions.General Books
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