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...dark avenger. So if every generation needs to remake its screen superheroes in its own image, why not just replace them with new ones? Partly because comic books aren't supplying them. After Marvel deconstructed the superhero, the comics' top talents started creating more personal, nonsuperheroic work, from R. Crumb's counterculture Zap Comics to Art Spiegelman's Holocaust story Maus to the haunting graphic novels of Chris Ware and Daniel Clowes...
...CRUMB SELLS "ZAP COMIX" No. 1 OUT OF A BABY CARRIAGE IN SAN FRANCISCO, BEGINNING THE ADULT, UNDERGROUND COMICS MOVEMENT...
...know; this tale doesn't really add up the way Hernandez' similarly deconstructed storylines have in the past. Nor does it have the emotional depth of his other stories. Still, Hernandez has a lot of fun spicing up the old conventions with farcical sex and violence. Like Robert Crumb, Hernandez seems to be blessed with the ability create things mostly for his own turn-ons that also work as art. Though a bit undeveloped in this series, he has always had a way with women characters in particular, somehow indulging in every imaginable fetishist "type" (included here: the voluptuous dwarf...
...comix part of the book, "Cartoonists on Cartooning," includes contributions from a number of artists we hardly hear from anymore. Robert Crumb, for example, submits a simulacrum of himself as "Harold," an aging cartoonist with his mind more on prostate cancer than on making art. Justin Green, another underground original, makes a welcome appearance with his typically personal story that starts with a childhood correspondence course in cartooning and ends with accidentally drinking paint thinner. Other contributors include Chris Ware, Los Bros. Hernandez, Carol Lay, Dave Sim (with a refreshingly straight-forward appreciation of Alex Raymond), Jessica Abel and about...
...parallels between the literary characters and our own family members. The problem is, as I became obsessed with these family stories like O’Neill’s A Long Day’s Journey into Night, for example, or Terry Zwigoff’s documentary about Robert Crumb and his family, all the characters became blurred and sometimes it’s hard to remember if Smerdyakov really is my brother...