Pocket cinema: The Confessions of Robert Crumb
Robert Crumb… Comic book author guilty on all charges for creating and spreading underground comics… I don’t think I’d ever read any of his comics that hasn’t made me laugh out loud… take the best of independent America + influences of all women Crumb tried to get laid + a bunch of his obsessions = brilliant and hilarious world of Robert Crumb…
Amazing story telling, amazing graphic style… Two films were shot till now about the creator of legendary Mr. Natural, great film ‘Crumb‘ by Terry Zwigoff and ‘The Confessions of Robert Crumb’ by Mary Dickinson.
Plot:
In 1987, Robert Crumb presents himself: raised by a Marine father, educated in Catholic schools, married at 21 in Cleveland where he worked for a greeting card company, dropping acid in 1965, heading to San Francisco and getting in on the formation of Zap Comix, gaining celebrity, loving old time jazz, starting a band, living in a commune, meeting Aline Kominsky who became his second wife and his partner in art, having a daughter, and developing a more realistic drawing style. The confessions include his loneliness, his obsessions with women, his bewilderment by fame, his sense of the disintegration of Sixties’ subculture, his nervous breakdown in 1973, and his peace now. (taken from: imdb)
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