R. Crumb
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89 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
R. Crumb’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It was only for myself. I had no motive to turn other people on to my sexual fantasies or my sexual preferences at all. It was just expressing what was inside myself in some way that...
that revealed, hopefully, the metaphor that it was, you know, in many variations of that, you know, the Angel Food McSpade, the Vulture Demonesses, or the Bigfoot Sasquatch character that I did, the big hairy female, or the Devil Girl character. These are all... And when feminists complain, say, these aren't real women, these are Crumb's fantasies, they're absolutely right. Right.
I got no argument with that. Yeah, that's what it is. It all comes out of my mind.
Right, right. I see myself as a very negative person, actually. I'm almost like a... negative of the normal well-adjusted guy you know I'm the everything that he is is I'm not and everything I am he's not you know it's almost how I see myself maybe not a hundred percent but you know I'm like the person of the night he's a guy of the day you know blah etc etc you know
Horrible guilt. Horrible guilt, of course. Praying desperately. Please, God, what is this about? Yeah.
You know, it's a funny thing. At the same time, the thoughts were, those fantasies were attractive and gave me pleasure, and at the same time, I was deeply disturbed by their sinfulness. So something had to go, and what went was the church and the whole sin thing. That had to go.
Right.
Well, just, you know, in... Opened the the gates for other young boys who had these who probably were also comic nerds when they grew up That's why they're drawing comics. And so they also had the same kind of frustrations and resentment towards women or the same kind of Not precisely.
I never saw anybody else draw precisely the same kind of stuff that I drew about sex but you know similar things or just It allowed them, it permitted them when they saw him. I went, Crumbs, he's cool and he's doing it. So, you know, I guess I can draw stuff that puts women in this position too. But, you know, of having violent acts committed against women.
But I don't think, I can't think of any artist offhand who was like totally obsessed with just drawing brutal violence against women. I don't know. I think this is, you know, but, you know, feminists and other people that are involved in any kind of, you know, political obsession like that, and you can't blame them for it. There's no, they're looking for that.
So they're looking, oh, here's one right here. Look, here's an example of, you know, somebody being violent to women, or here's somebody abusing a woman. You know, they're looking for that. And yeah, I'm sure you can find it. It's there. Yeah. Yeah. But one of my defenses is that I don't think I ever drew it in such a way as it could be taken as propaganda for behavior like that.
I don't make that sort of behavior towards women look heroic or commendable. I mean, the characters that are doing those things are always, you know, creepy little twisted guys. They're not, you know, heroic, virtuous images that someone would want to emulate, right?
Right.
Yes, I drew hundreds and hundreds of greeting cards.
No.
They're pretty bland. They're bland. I didn't write them. I just did the drawings. They had a staff of writers. And you went to work. It was a 9 to 5 job. You punched a time clock. It was in Cleveland. I got up at 6 o'clock in the morning and took the rapid transit to work every day. I went to the bar after work and drank with the guys and then went home and asked myself, is this my life?
Is this what my life is going to be from now on?
No, they had this department that, in the late 50s, they started making these kind of more hip-looking greeting cards. They were tall and thin, you know?
I was in that department.
They were funny. Yeah, they were funny. And some of them actually were funny. They had a couple of writers who actually were gifted comedy writers who just got stuck in Cleveland because they were alcoholics or whatever. But they wrote very funny cards.
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