Natural grabs Flakey Foont's shoulder and says: "I'll let ya in on a secret! The whole universe is COMPLETELY INSANE!" Natural, who was a lascivious, freeloading, prankster satire on the notion that some guru, master or roshi had The Answer.
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Fritz ended up in an animated movie that Crumb hated, just as he hated all the T-shirts, vans, hats, posters and so on that ripped off "Keep on Truckin'." Another Crumb classic was the robed and bearded Mr. If you apprenticed the craft of hipness back then, you might remember the opportunistic Fritz the Cat spouting Aquarian Age cliches to get girls. If Peter Max was the suave culture hero artist then, with his drawings that looked like crib decorations, Robert Crumb was the nerd antihero, with his rounded, foodlike bouncy-baby characters lusting, despairing, hating and winking with huge irony at it all.Ī 1972 Crumb character named Fuzzy the Bunny asks about "The Mary Tyler Moore Show": "They sing in the theme song about love' being all around' her but what about all the hate? What about all the hate around Mary Tyler Moore?" It must have meant something or a two-hour documentary film called "Crumb" wouldn't have opened here on Friday.
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What did it mean? Put more glide in your stride, more zip in your trip, hang in there but don't get hung up, dig the Kerouacian quirks of the mad sidewalks of America.
Once he was a celebrity among students, communards, acid heads, runaways, guru-groupies and other members of that mind-tribe known as "the '60s." He was an outsider, a slouching nerd with a mustache that looked as though he were still trying to grow it, but he was also the comic-book laureate, the creator of the "Keep on Truckin' " panel showing stoned urban characters with huge shoes and little heads trucking down the street, leaning back and strewing their feet before them in a hipster cakewalk against a lurking city skyline that hints at Apocalypse.
You could talk to a lot of high school kids, even college kids or art school kids before you'd find anybody who'd heard of R.
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