![]() ![]() ![]() One of the most popular of his nostalgic works is “A Short History of America” (1979) a series of panels showing the shift from open countryside, to the town settlements brought by the railroads, to the gross overdevelopment of the late-twentieth century. ![]() One might even think of Crumb’s consumption of old-time music and imagery as a kind of cultural health food diet. God only knows if that affects you physically!”Ĭrumb’s comic art-which he has described in almost therapeutic terms as an emptying of his “garbage receptacle” unconscious-is balanced by his more sober and nostalgic illustrations, the counterweight to the “crap” of his childhood media exposure. I spent my whole childhood absorbing so much crap that my personality and mind are saturated with it. While on LSD, in the 1960s, Crumb thought of his mind as “a garbage receptacle of mass media images and input. Ian Buruma writes in The New York Review of Books:Ĭrumb, like his brothers, soaked up the TV and comics culture of the 1950s: Howdy Doody, Donald Duck, Roy Rogers, Little Lulu, and the like. For Crumb, that age is pre-WWII, pre-industrial, rural-a time, as he has put it in a recent interview, when “people could still express themselves.” His experience with the slop of American popular culture was decidedly less idyllic. It is the flip side of his satire, a genre that cannot flourish as a critique of the present without a corresponding vision of a golden age. Crumb’s love for simpler times is more than the passion of an aficionado. ![]()
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