Word: zwigoff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CRUMB Robert Crumb, the Brueghel of underground comic books, sits uneasily for Terry Zwigoff's blistering documentary portrait. Crumb's images of geeky guys and rampaging women seem almost normal next to this picture of his middle-class family--a mother and three gifted, twisted sons--all devoured by demons. Appalling and enthralling, Crumb is the ultimate situation tragedy...
...director Terry Zwigoff, an old friend, Crumb and his family sit for an unvarnished portrait of an artist whose comic strips reveal modern man at his most screwed up. Slouching through celebrity life with the same gravity-defying posture as the guy in his famous "Keep On Truckin'" cartoon, Crumb presents no apologies or explanations for his work. "Maybe I should be locked up," he says, "and my pencils taken away from...