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“back in those days” … it really was not that long ago, and what you say is also true today.

by jb1991 2y ago

theFco 2y ago
and furthermore, "families that are a bit off" are still plenty today, and people still do the best with what they got. I don't see the need to say that was that way then...
- gosub100 2y ago
  Agree, and the bizarre things that the family members were into have simply been replaced with a new set of things. Arguably the only difference is back then they weren't thrown out on the streets due to high rents
- leoc 2y ago
  Yes, but they tend to be 'off' in quite different ways. Crumb's father was the kind of hyper-repressed figure who for most of us nowadays only exists as a boogeyman character in fiction, but who was much more of a reality in the pre-1970 world.
ggm 2y ago
1968 is over 50 years ago. As a 1961 vintage person, 50 years back was pre WW1. the past is another country. They do things very differently in Fritz the cat's time. I don't think you could publish that now.
- Joeboy 2y ago
  > I don't think you could publish that now Maybe you'd struggle to get widespread (physical) distribution, or to build an audience, or to make a living off it. I don't think anybody would stop you printing it, or take down your website or whatever. It wasn't mainstream or uncontroversial in the '60s either.
- ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
  Wally Wood did "The Disneyland Memorial Orgy" (Google it) around the same time. I'm pretty sure it was banned (not anymore, as that Google It will show).
- jb1991 2y ago
  there are plenty of things published today that push boundaries in the same way
- bazoom42 2y ago
  > I don't think you could publish that now. What would prevent you from publishing something like that today?
- leoc 2y ago
  It's not merely that 50 years is a long time. There's a profound cultural watershed between the Before Times, the overcontrolled, neurotic world of roughly up to the late '60s, and the narcissistic/sociopathic world of today. Robert Crumb, and the whole Crumb family, embody that change in an unusually extreme way.

“back in those days” … it really was not that long ago, and what you say is also true today.

by jb1991 2y ago

“back in those days” … it really was not that long ago, and what you say is also true today.

and furthermore, "families that are a bit off" are still plenty today, and people still do the best with what they got. I don't see the need to say that was that way then...

gosub100 2y ago
Agree, and the bizarre things that the family members were into have simply been replaced with a new set of things. Arguably the only difference is back then they weren't thrown out on the streets due to high rents
leoc 2y ago
Yes, but they tend to be 'off' in quite different ways. Crumb's father was the kind of hyper-repressed figure who for most of us nowadays only exists as a boogeyman character in fiction, but who was much more of a reality in the pre-1970 world.

ggm 2y ago

1968 is over 50 years ago. As a 1961 vintage person, 50 years back was pre WW1. the past is another country. They do things very differently in Fritz the cat's time. I don't think you could publish that now.

Joeboy 2y ago
> I don't think you could publish that now Maybe you'd struggle to get widespread (physical) distribution, or to build an audience, or to make a living off it. I don't think anybody would stop you printing it, or take down your website or whatever. It wasn't mainstream or uncontroversial in the '60s either.
ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
Wally Wood did "The Disneyland Memorial Orgy" (Google it) around the same time. I'm pretty sure it was banned (not anymore, as that Google It will show).
jb1991 2y ago
there are plenty of things published today that push boundaries in the same way
bazoom42 2y ago
> I don't think you could publish that now. What would prevent you from publishing something like that today?
leoc 2y ago
It's not merely that 50 years is a long time. There's a profound cultural watershed between the Before Times, the overcontrolled, neurotic world of roughly up to the late '60s, and the narcissistic/sociopathic world of today. Robert Crumb, and the whole Crumb family, embody that change in an unusually extreme way.