The article mentions Crumb living in France. He moved there right when he was being filmed for his biographical documentary "Crumb" (1994). It's considered one

The article mentions Crumb living in France. He moved there right when he was being filmed for his biographical documentary "Crumb" (1994). It's considered one of the best documentaries ever made. The film chronicles Crumbs rise to fame. As the film tries to understand Crumb's obsession with obscenities, it dives deeper through interviews with him and family members. There, we see a painful portrait of an American family; a temperamental father in the Marines traumatized from war, but conforming to the "pleasant" social decorum in 1950s American suburbia; a mother who becomes unstable after taking amphetamine for dieting. His brothers appear in the film, one of which take a cocktail of anti-depressants. (He committed suicide before the film completed.) The NYT article touches upon his estrangement in France: "Crumb’s followed in the long line of artists and writers who have exiled themselves from America." Perhaps his emigration overseas is a way to distance himself from the place of painful memories.