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Last year, so-hip-it-hurts literary journal “McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern” (with Dave Eggers as editor) published an “all-comics issue” featuring graphic novel artists. The contents included contributors as diverse as bawdy comic legend R. Crumb, the understated Canadian Seth, and existentialist horror artists Charles Burns and Adrian Tomine. Chris Ware, fresh from the impressive critical success with “Jimmy Corrigan, Smartest Kid on Earth,” served as editor...
...Brattle Theatre along with Ware, has finally completed his magnum opus, “Black Hole,” serialized over a decade and now available in a single tome. “Black Hole” is not for the faint of heart. Like Clowes and Crumb, Burns explores the mediocrity of the suburbs and the disappointment and isolation of the teenaged years...
...CRUMB: Yeah well, [characters like Angelfood McSpade] were just stereotypical 1920s images of big-lipped black people which actually had very little to do with real African Americans. They were cartoon stereotypes I was playing around with. All that stuff I did in the late 1960s was cartoon stereotypes. I was playing around with them in a psychedelicized way. I dunno. It's hard to explain. It's not my job to explain...
...CRUMB: I think that you had to be really, really alienated to get that point. You had to be very alienated from the culture...
...CRUMB: You've got to have nothing to lose. If you're trying to work the art game, if you're like Andy Warhol or something, then you're in with cake-eaters of society. You want to get in with them and please them and get their money...