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Wasn't one of the brothers also a (heterosexual) stalker with an Asian fetish and a habit of drawing art about it? Presumably that was Maxon. It's been a long t
by leoc 2y ago
Wasn't one of the brothers also a (heterosexual) stalker with an Asian fetish and a habit of drawing art about it? Presumably that was Maxon. It's been a long time since I've seen the documentary.
TFA is also frankly pretty underhanded in talking up Crumb's love of inter-war blues recordings while saying very little about his forays into anti-black racism, including one example which is so notorious that the Crumb documentary confronts him directly about it.
- gosub100 2y agoOr more directly, his art often portrayed black people in caricature.
- rufus_foreman 2y ago>> his art often portrayed black people in caricature His art often portrayed people in caricature.
- alt227 2y agoIf the subjects are rarely white and mostly black, is it not fair to say that he often portrayed black people in caricature? Similar to saying 'Van Gogh often painted sunflowers' instead of 'Van Gogh often painted flowers'.
- leoc 2y agoThere's a fuzzy but very real distinction between caricature in general and frankly racist caricature. Quite a few of Crumb's drawings of black people have been clearly over that line, and (polite warning) it would be pretty rash to try to deny that.
- bazoom42 2y agoThat is putting it mildly. Crumbs art is ridiculously over the top offensive. Of course taboo-breaking was the point of underground comics.
- throwaway984393 2y ago[dead]
- mistrial9 2y agothe art was published underground because plenty of it was plenty offensive to lots of groups of people. .. that was the intention completely. Lots of R Crumb's art was controversial and outrageous by definition. Lots of reasonable and caring people had a lot of concern, volunteer censors appeared from many corners with torches and brimstone, and the art was published anyway.