Word: cartooning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...tale: "Girls are just utterly out of my reach. They won't even let me draw them." He became a cult sensation--and got lots of girls--by drawing them as monuments to his awe and fear of women. They are mammoth fertility totems; they dare the cringing Crumb cartoon male to deify or defile them. In his work Crumb does both, which has earned him no end of scorn from people with protective sensibilities...
Animated wonton soup and flying chopsticks dance around the screen in the cartoon-like opening credits of "Double Happiness," writer/director Mina Shum's debut feature. Strangely, the tone of cutely-stylized disorder established in this stir-fry beginning sets the mood for the remainder of the film...
AFTER FOUR YEARS of cartooning at Harvard, I've discovered that many people are acquainted with me by my cartoons alone. They see my initials next to drawings in the Crimson or Lampoon and think they know me. When such people meet me for the first time, they are often surprised that I do not have bulging eyes, tangled hair, extra fingers or huge feet. They expect me to be a living Budnitz cartoon, with a heavy black outline all around and my initials in my armpit...
Jordan vs. Tony the Tiger? Jordan's played against cartoon characters before--he beat Bugs Bunny in the commercial. He beat the Marrian. If you beat the Martian dude, you are the best player. Tony's no problem...