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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 tha

• 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.