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" With comics, you've got to develop some kind of shorthand. You can't make every drawing look like a detailed etching. The average reader actually doesn't want all that detail; it interferes with the flow of the reading process. "

Robert Crumb

Reading

Drawing

Detail

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Robert Crumb

Myself

You

" I guess I didn't enjoy drawing very much. It was like homework. "

" Oh, yes. I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy. "

Robert Crumb

Yes

" Throwaway pens are no good - I never liked them. I've tried them all. "

" In the fall of 1968, I became attractive to women. One day I was an ignored schlub in the street, then suddenly all these good-looking women were interested in me. "

" I would call myself a Gnostic. Which means, I'm interested in pursuing and understanding the spiritual nature of things. A Gnostic is somebody seeking knowledge of that aspect of reality. "

" I have always had an abiding interest in that type of female anatomy. "

" You must thank the gods for art, those of us who have been fortunate enough to stumble onto this means of venting our craziness, our meanness, our towering disgust. "

" Yeah, I was a child of American popular culture. "

" Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances. "

" When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate. "

Robert Crumb

World

Real

" I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy. "

" I always had a sketchbook with me when I was young. I was hiding behind it, basically, hiding behind drawing because I couldn't cope with people in real life; I was very shy and very nervous around people. "

" I moved further and further away from mass entertainment. The sexual element became increasingly sinister and bizarre. Don't blame me! The bastards drove me to it! They all backed off after that! "

Robert Crumb

Away

Entertainment

" There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists. "

" Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that. "

" When I was younger, I just lived my life on paper. I didn't really live in the real world very much. As a consequence, I couldn't cope with the real world and real people very well. That in itself became life threatening, so I had to stop drawing so much and learn how to cope with people. "

" In my midteens I went through a brief stage of religious fanaticism, but it was very much about just saying prayers and stuff like that, reciting rosaries and spending a lot of time on that kind of Catholic ritual. "

" I'm just a negative person, a deeply negative person. I see the worst aspects of everything. "

" Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work. "

" I do covers for CDs and LPs of music that I like, reissues of old-time music, and then I'm inspired to make some kind of drawing based on this love of the music. I don't do album covers or CD covers for groups or musicians I don't like or have no interest in. "

" The Bible was not written for entertainment purposes, so it's a real hodgepodge and a compendium of all kinds of stuff. "

" You don't have to be a Fundamentalist Christian to be interested in the Bible. It's really a fascinating mythology. "

" People still make me nervous, but gradually over the years I've developed kind of like a public personality, so I can talk. I have my spiel, I have my stories. "

Robert Crumb

Personality

Kind

" You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try. "

" The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that. "

" I use the old Strathmore vellum surface paper, which is the best paper you can get in the Western world for ink line drawing. It has a good, hard surface. "

" I was raised Catholic and I went to church until I was 16. I went through a phase when I was 15 of being quite fanatically Catholic. I was going to church a lot, receiving communion, saying the Rosary, praying, all that stuff. But when I started scrutinizing it, it just fell apart so quickly. "

" When I go back to America, after a few days I am once again filled with this kind of angry alienation and disgust with this thing there that America has got - you have no idea how pervasive it is there. The public relations and propaganda put out by the corporate mono-culture there is so pervasive. "