Robert Crumb
Robert Crumb
Robert Dennis Crumbis an American cartoonist and musician who often signs his work R. Crumb. His work displays a nostalgia for American folk culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and satire of contemporary American culture...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth30 August 1943
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
revenge world becoming
I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.
growing-up book kids
As a kid growing up in the 1950s I became acutely aware of the changes taking place in American culture and I must say I didn't much like it. I witnessed the debasement of architecture, and I could see a decline in the quality of things like comic books and toys, things made for kids. Old things seemed to have more life, more substance, more humanity in them.
love-you exercise ideas
You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try.
couple special dollars
I draw the line at some things. Some things I won't do for any amount of money. Like for instance, there's a couple of CEOs of very large corporations that offered me lots of money to do special pictures for them. And I just refused to do that. Even if it was a million dollars I wouldn't do it.
real stuff entertainment
The Bible was not written for entertainment purposes, so it's a real hodgepodge and a compendium of all kinds of stuff.
real world come-up
When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate.
two numbers america
You don’t have journalists over there anymore, what they have is public relations people. That’s what they have over in America now. Two-hundred and fifty thousand people in public relations. And a dwindling number of actual reporters and journalists.