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People have no idea of the sources for my work. I didn't invent anything; It's all there in the culture; it's not a big mystery. I just combine my personal experience with classic cartoon stereotypes.

— Robert Crumb

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I’m an outsider. I will always be an outsider.

Industrial civilization figured out how to manufacture popular culture and sell it back to the people. You have to marvel at the ingenuity of it!

The R. Crumb Handbook by Robert Crumb and Peter Poplaski (2005)

When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate.

Before industrial civilization, local and regional communities made their own music, their own entertainment.

The R. Crumb Handbook by Robert Crumb and Peter Poplaski (2005)

Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.

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