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Post by G on Oct 16, 2009 1:37:30 GMT -5
I just got done watching the movie Crumb. I have a new Netflix account I got a few weeks ago. And one of the perks is besides having movies sent to you, you also get to go through a nice library of movies and watch them on your computer no extra charge free. I find myself seeing a lot of stand up comics this way and other stuff that are not normal movies. The normal movies I'll have sent home. But I'm prone to even dig documentaries and biographies, because lets face it, some people are more interesting than others. Crumb is a fascinating movie and human being. I find when I watch this movie, I get drawn into it and just mesmerized into watching it until the end. It doesn't matter if I've seen it before. It doesn't matter if I know the movie by heart. I still find it great stuff and if you have an artistic side of you, you may even feel a bit of a kindship with what madness you are seeing. The whole movie is every bit as disturbing as it is entertaining. I find Crumbs art to be amazing as well. When he wants, he can draw in complete detail and you'd never know the underground far out side his art has. But when you do see his far out stuff, its just great imagination combined with a lot of bits of realness. Someone who truly lets his imagination run free. And sometimes I feel I could do similar works if I was just more imaginative. But Im not. But one thing you get is he practices constantly and that is how it happens as with everyone who masters their craft. Whats so oddly disturbing is sitting there watching Crumb be this shleppy little nerd kind of dweeb outcast guy who takes just a little bit of sweet revenge in knowing he's famous enough to afford himself an easy life. And as you meet the rest of his family, you discover the creepy sides of his family and you become amused how Crumb sits there and laughs at his family almost like its how he deals with it. He just laughs at it. And I find myself laughing at him laughing at his family. And as nerdy and dweeby as Crumb is, you come to realize he is the most sane person in the group. The rest living solitary confinement lives too afraid to deal with the real world. Its almost through this madness you see the genius that is Crumb. |
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Post by defiant1 on Oct 16, 2009 21:23:41 GMT -5
I'm not a fan of R. Crumb. I did buy this as a reference volume in February...  I'm more a fan of the other weird underground stuff...    df1 |
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Post by G on Dec 5, 2009 21:34:06 GMT -5
Me and my wife did some Xmas shopping today...(She bought me an accoustic bass!!! Something I've always wanted!).....Anyway, along the way I spent some time in a Barnes and Noble book store and happened upon Crumbs Genesis Hardback book.
I have to say it was very impressive for me to look at! I only scanned through it for about 3 minutes and moved on, but it was neat to see his take on the book of Genesis. Amazingly, he had it separated into chapters just like in the bible. I'm sure it read just like the bible as well. I thought there may have been a lot of ab-libbing to it, but it looked like he pretty much interpreted from actual scripture and translated it into Crumbs look and feel on drawing comics!
A negative is, just like the bible, it looked like there was a lot of dialogue and not a ton of action. Furthermore, even though this looked like Crumb put a lot of painstaking work into it, it's not absolutely the best Crumb work Ive ever seen. However, taken as a whole body of work, it is a quite impressive feat and it looks like he poured his soul into the making of this book. It seemed surreal to see Crumb doing a Christian work after witnessing all the perverted stuff I've seen Crumb do. If I had been sitting with a fat wallet, I would have easily picked one of these up!
I think Crumb has every right to feel proud of this judging from what I seen. It really is a shining example of what comic creators are capable of doing and also bodes well for alternate ways to read religion.
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Post by bigw1966 on Jan 26, 2010 11:17:34 GMT -5
That Crumb film is a classic. NETFLIX rules also.
I have always liked Crumbs work sort of like how we sometimes just like to get our hands dirty working in the mud. His work evokes feelings in you that you may not have known you had. Especially in his depictions of women and how he see's them sexually. The guy has his quirks that is for sure.
I bought his Book of Genesis. It was only $25. What a bargain. He did a word for word Translation of the old testament. Its a phenomenal piece of work that is not what you would expect from him.
That probably has something to do with the response it has gotten.
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Post by G on Jan 28, 2010 20:09:07 GMT -5
www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=24621According to this, so Robert Crumb trading cards are being rereleased reprinting the original Kitchen Sink set from the 1990s with minor changes. Although I have very few cards and care about hardly any, I actually wouldn't mind owning a set of these.
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