Summary
Crumb, the shy, eternal outsider wearing his id on his sleeve and "looking for love in all the wrong places ", with no prayer of financial success, simply did what a lot of people did in the Sixties: he "let it all hang out".
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Pen and Ink Revolutionary
In 1972, the San Francisco art critic Thomas Albright congratulated Robert Crumb and the other underground cartoonists for rejuvenating the tired conventions of the comic strip and adapting it to a new revolutionary end - a "hard-core" form of honesty. The occasion was the release of Fritz the Cat, the first X-rated feature-length animated cartoon. The movie was based on a comic strip that Crumb had drawn in a sketchbook to amuse himse...
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