Crumb is a character in the movie adaptation of American Splendor, played by James Urbaniak. Crumb commentators have associated this viewpoint with Crumb's then-unhappy marriage, noting that after remarrying and having a daughter, Crumb has drawn significantly more feminist-themed material since the 1980s.īecame famous again in the 1990s as the subject of the critically-acclaimed biopic Crumb, which is similar in many ways to American Splendor, the semi-autobiographical adaptation of the life of fellow underground cartoonist Harvey Pekar, which Crumb also contributed to. Harder to deny, however, was the misogyny: his comics frequently featured women being beaten up and raped, and even enjoying being sexually assaulted. Works depicting Blackface-inspired imagery and use of the N-word earned Crumb false accusations of racism, even though the comics were actually a satire of racism, not racist work in of itself. Some of this work earned him a lot of criticism from other underground cartoonists and social commentators. He had some work published by Harvey Kurtzman in Help! magazine, but experiences with LSD led him to create some of his best-known comics, which he either published himself or submitted to other underground publications. He began his career working for Topps and the American Greetings corporation there, he drew several of the earliest Fritz the Cat comics and the graphic novel Oggie and the Beanstalk. Natural and the album cover for Big Brother and the Holding Company's Cheap Thrills (1968). Robert Dennis Crumb (born August 30, 1943) is an Underground Comics creator best known for Zap Comix, "Keep on Truckin", Fritz the Cat, Mr.
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