The look into Crumb’s family including his brothers in Charles and Maxon as they’re both artists as well showcases a family that is talented but also share that sense of disdain towards modern society as the former lives as a total recluse who would sadly commit suicide a year after filming was finished. Yet, the film isn’t just about who he is as an artist but also the man himself as it was largely shot in the early 1990s in the span of a few years where director Terry Zwigoff doesn’t just talk to Crumb but also family including his wife Aline Kominsky-Crumb, their daughter Sophie, his son Jesse from his first marriage to Dana who is also interviewed, his mother Beatrice, and two of his brothers in Charles and Maxon.
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He also creates work for a series of comics that expresses his own views on the world as well as society, sexuality, and other things that are considered controversial or enticing from an artistic point of view. While he is famous for work such as the album cover Cheap Thrills for Big Brother and the Holding Company that featured Janis Joplin, the Keep on Truckin’ comics, and the original Fritz the Cat comics. The result is a strange yet exhilarating portrait of one of the greatest artists to emerge in the late 20th Century.Īmong one of the key figures of the American underground comic scene of the 1960s, Robert Crumb is an artist that is known for drawing all sorts of crazy things that were controversial, odd, and provocative but were also lauded by many. All of which play into the world of a man who is considered too strange or too provocative for the world of mainstream and high-art.
The film explores not just his unique work in the world of art and comics but also into his family life that include relatives who are quite eccentric in their own right. Directed by Terry Zwigoff, Crumb is a documentary film about the life and career of underground cartoonist Robert Crumb and his eccentric lifestyle.
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