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Posted By mattreep 3 weeks, 3 days ago in Arts & EntertainmentThe pioneering comics of Robert Crumb are a perfect example of an artist writing what he knows. In Crumb's case, they're the work of a man who knew what he didn't like, and the burgeoning San Francisco hippy scene that surrounded Crumb was a frequent target of his furiously scathing, yet hilariously insightful, pen. The hypocrisy of the hippies and their fabled "Summer of Love" were chronicled with the same brutal, unflinching honesty in which Crumb autobiographically presented himself. A nebbish, bespectacled figure, Crumb drew himself in full, unflattering detail as a prematurely old man already out of touch with the times. His most famous creations, "Keep on Truckin," Mr. Natural, and Fritz the Cat became iconic images of the '60s and '70s but for the artist himself, he was enraptured with an earlier era and the musical legacy it had left behind.
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