Never meet your heroes

Crumb is a bizarre car crash of a documentary - one can't help but watch. It is an entertaining watch, although quite heavily flawed; numerous lapses in taste and an over long running time.

Crumb is clearly an emotionally damaged person - though in comparison to the rest of his blood related family he seems quite normal. Crumb is a dichotomy, being strangely introverted and an extrovert at the same time. He does seem to live through his drawings - being more at ease with pen and ink than actual humans. As he is clearly not quite right in the dead department, I think any over criticism of him or his actions are unwarranted. He is certainly a genius.

My main problem with this documentary was the laziness of the director in his choosing interviewees. Robert Hughes offers some really excelleny frank oppinions about Crumb, the artist - not the person. Sadly the good interviews are dogged down by two women who have a distinct problem with Crumb. On one hand, a lady is uncomfortable of Crumb's depiction of women. This is an area open to debate. On the other hand, another woman terms Crumb as a racist. He is clearly not a racist.

The cartoon featuring two children longing for a can of *beep* Hearts" is one of the most intelligent social commentarties I have ever seen. Anybody who would consider this to be racist is very very wrong indeed. Caution is understandle due to the word *beep* but the word *beep* itself does not actually reffer to a black person - a *beep* is a man (usually with a weapon of sorts) who intends to obtain money from people via various methods...

*beep* Hearts represents the oppression of black people in white America, it is not a glorification of it.