Ultimately the gross crudeness and juvenile obsession with sex and the scatological make it pretty hard to take this stuff very seriously though. Is he an enlightened guru or a charlatan? It seems to change from episode to episode. Natural is a convincing and 3-dimensional cartoon character that keeps you guessing. And in his uniqueness lies his American everyman appeal. He really captures the feeling of Haight Ashbury circa 1969 both from the perspective of an insider & from the perspective of someone who was too sly to buy into the whole hippie movement even as he experienced it's epi-center.Ĭrumb is truly an an original weirdo. His work seems pretty interesting from a historic point of view, in the same way that reading the beatniks is. Some quibble that he is none of those things, but he is about those things i.e. As a child, Robert and his brother Charles started drawing home-made comic books for their own amusement. By Robert Crumb SC, 8 x 11, 128 pages, BW, 12.95 ISBN 978-1-56097-194-8 Robert Crumbs The Book of Mr. Natural Series) by Robert Crumb See Customer Reviews Select Format Hardcover 17.80 Paperback - Select Condition Like New Unavailable Very Good Unavailable Good Unavailable Acceptable Unavailable New 17. Besides being pretty crazy he is also incredibly perverted, misogynistic and very racist. Robert Crumb 1943 If you have only ever heard of one American cartoonist, it is highly likely that it’s Robert Crumb, the important and influential granddaddy of the underground comix movement. Natural by Robert Crumb Comics & Graphic Novels > Comic Strip Books ISBN: ISBN13: The Book of Mr.
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