![]() Robert Crumb’s new, long-form comics adaptation of the Book of Genesis may be more immediately accessible to casual graphic novel readers than to devotees of the celebrated cartoonist’s satirical, psychedelic, sexual, and endlessly self-excavating short-form comics of the past forty-two years. When I suddenly realize that I am one of them, I want to scream in horror.By: Bill Kartalopoulos | October 13, 2009 Sometimes I feel suffocated I want to flee from it.įor me, to be human is, for the most part, to hate what I am. I hate the vacuous, false, banal conversation that goes on among people. I hate the way humans are constantly trying to trick and deceive one another, to swindle, to cheat, and take unfair advantage of the innocent, the naïve and the ignorant. I hate the human tendency towards revenge and vindictiveness. I hate the way humans worship power – one of the most disgusting of all human traits. It’s all a lot of power games played out by ambition-driven people, and foisted on the weak, the poor, and on children. And we never ever fully succeed in this endeavor. I hate the way the human psyche works, the way we are traumatized and stupidly imprinted in early childhood and have to spend the rest of our lives trying to overcome these infantile mental fixations. My soul was in constant conflict about it. I was constantly driven by frustrated desires to do bizarre and unacceptable things with and to women. I was always repelled by my own sex drive, which in my youth never left me alone. Reproduction – what could be more existentially repulsive? Sex is especially hateful and horrifying, the male penetrating the female, his dick goes into her hole, she’s impregnated, another being grows inside her, and then she must go through a painful ordeal as the new being pushes out of her, only to repeat the whole process in time. I hate the whole way that nature functions. The natural world is filled with scary, murderous creatures and forces. The thought of my internal functions, the organs, digestion, the brain, the nervous system, horrify me. I hate having to eat, shit, maintain the body – I hate my body. I hate having to get up in the morning and face another day of this insanity. I hate the mass media, and how passively people suck up to it. I hate the commodity culture, in which everything is bought and sold. Money is one of the most hateful inventions of the human race. I hate business, having to deal with money. Words cannot express how much it gets on my nerves – the false, pretentious, smug assertiveness of it. Every building built after 1955 should be torn down! I hate the hordes, the crowds in their vast cities, with all their hateful vehicles, their noise and their constant meaningless comings and goings. For one thing there are just too Goddamn many people. I hate most of what passes for civilization. Though I might be very fond of particular individuals, humanity in general fills me with contempt and despair. I cling desperately to the few things that give me some solace, that make me feel good. I am constantly disgusted by reality, horrified and afraid. “I’m such a negative person, and always have been. He was inducted into the comic book industry's Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1991.more Others are the characters "Devil Girl", "Fritz the Cat", and "Mr. One of his most recognized works is the "Keep on Truckin'" comic, which became a widely distributed fixture of pop culture in the 1970s. Though one of the most celebrated of comic book artists, Crumb's entire career has unfolded outside the mainstream comic book publishing industry. ![]() He was inducted into the comic book industry's Will Eisner Comic Book Hal Robert Dennis Crumb (born August 30, 1943)- is an American artist, illustrator, and musician recognized for the distinctive style of his drawings and his critical, satirical, subversive view of the American mainstream.Ĭrumb was a founder of the underground comix movement and is regarded as its most prominent figure. ![]() ![]() ![]() Crumb was a founder of the underground comix movement and is regarded as its most prominent figure. Robert Dennis Crumb (born August 30, 1943)- is an American artist, illustrator, and musician recognized for the distinctive style of his drawings and his critical, satirical, subversive view of the American mainstream. ![]()
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