Legendary Cartoonist Robert Crumb on the Massacre in Paris
Robert Crumb is considered by many to be the single best cartoonist America has ever produced. The creator of counter culture icons like Fritz the Cat, the Keep On Truckin guy and Mr Natural, Mr. Crumb was inducted into the comic book Hall of Fame in 1991, the same year he moved his family to France, where he has resided ever since. Writer Celia Farber reached him at his home in Sauve, France on Friday, January 9, 2015, to talk about the massacre of cartoonists and others in Paris this week.
Celia Farber: Have journalists been calling you today to talk about the assassinations at Charlie Hedbo? Are you willing to talk about it?
Robert Crumb: Liberation wanted me to draw a cartoon, so I did this cartoon for Liberation about it. So far, you are the first American journalist that’s asked me to talk about it. I’ll talk about it, yeah.
No other journalists have called you? Really?
No, you’re the only one. You don’t have journalists over there anymore, what they have is public relations people. That’s what they have over in America now. Two-hundred and fifty thousand people in public relations. And a dwindling number of actual reporters and journalists.
Read more at http://observer.com/2015/01/legendary-cartoonist-robert-crumb-on-the-massacre-in-paris/
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Here's his cartoon:
Thanks for posting the article.
Sid
I loved that interview! I was just talking yesterday about R Crumb. It came as a result of our walking through the mall yesterday.
I could get flamed for this, but I spotted some body types who reminded me of the space cadet character he'd draw. They were the simpleton females who'd fall under the spell of the hipsters wanting nothing more than to get into their pants. My husband heard me refer to the person I was spying as, "Honey… Look… R Crumb!" He finally remembered why I said this when I showed him the drawing from this Observer interview.
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I think he was one of the ones who inspired me to try Pen & Ink when I was in art classes years ago. His details and cross hatching techniques were just amazing to me. I always studied his
style closely just to see how he could flesh out a person or object so well.
"No, you’re the only one. You don’t have journalists over there anymore, what they have is public relations people. That’s what they have over in America now. Two-hundred and fifty thousand people in public relations. And a dwindling number of actual reporters and journalists. "
