Robert Crumb

Yeraltı çizgi roman sanatçısı R. Crumb’ın çalışmalarını bilenler, birkaç tahtasının eksik olduğunu tahmin edebilir ve gerçekten de haklı çıkabilirler. Oysa ki Terry Zwigoff’un, Crumb’ın hayatını anlatan bu hüzünlü ve büyüleyici belgeselinin en büyük keşiflerinden biri, R. Crumb’ın, hepsi de beklenmedik yetenek ve yaratıcılık sahibi olan ancak bu yaratıcılık gücünü birbirinden son derece farklı hal ve dışavurumlara akıtan üç kardeşten en az acayibi, ve en iyi uyum göstereni olması. Kardeşlerden biri, zamanının çoğunu San Francisco sokaklarında meditasyon yaparak geçiriyor. Diğeriyse, evinde annesiyle gizlenerek klinik depresyon ve delilikle mücadele eden bir münzevi. Bu iki kardeş de en az R. Crumb kadar sanata yatkın ve yetenekli; ve filmin büyük kısmı, paylaştıkları görece sıradan çocukluk evresinin üç kardeşi nasıl farklı yönlere itmiş olduğunu gözler önüne seriyor.

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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.

A rare glimpse into the art and married life of two giants of autobiographical comics, Justin Green and Carol Tyler, who pioneered and set the bar for one of comics' most important genres.

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