The confessions of Robert crumb

the confessions of Robbert crumb (1987) Robert crumb is an artist who became famous in the 1960s,he was known as a pioneer of the underground comics. In his animations and comics he didn't mind sharing to the public his deepest emotions,he would do this a lot more than other people in the era of his prime. He sees himself as a sexist and he depicts this in his animations/comics. His dad was a macho man and Robert and his 2 brothers were the poler opposite to him,Robert feels like this annoyed his dad and made him feel bad about him self for not raising strong macho boys. When Robert was a teen he got very into collecting and had a big attraction to old music,he thought it seemed more raw and vital,he believed he loved this stuff as he was a outcast to society. At 19 a pen pal of his invited him to stay at his house,when he moved he quickly got a job at a greeting card company.All throughout this period he saw still saw him self as a weirdo and reject, he drew pictures of his sexual fantasies then tore them up and threw them into the toilet.He then met a woman that was 18 when he was 21 and quickly got married. He talks about how he thought the only quality that attracted them together was that they where both just desperate weirdoes in need of attention. In 1965 he took LSD for the first time and it knocked him for a loop. Things were never the same to him he felt that normal reality was just a shabby cardboard flat reality compared to the meaning that he saw when under the influence of LSD.He split up with his wife then met with some people in the pub and they traveled to California,riddled with guilt he called his wife and she moved up there where they lived for a few years. He took LSD a lot at this point in his life,He believed he did not turn into a full hippy as he felt he was too narrow minded and stuck up. Robert then created a few new character including one called white man that was based on his father.White man was a character that was caught up in all these illusions about what you are meant to do with your life as a member of society.Another one of the characters was called The old Pooperooh This character depicted the working class man that just had to shovel shit all his life doing shit end jobs just to stay alive.He made one called angle food mcspade,she was a character that represented the vulture demonises in larger than life female like characters.Finally he made one called MR.naturall who was a cockeyed guru character.I believe all these characters defiantly influenced people and played on their morals.