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...Crumb best expresses his joy in "Stoned." The strip is a series of short phrases, each accompanied by a cartoon, each representing some part of the business of being alive, and each ending with the word "stoned." Drugs play no part in Crumb's version of stoned, though; the variety of events and emotions found in life is the stoning agent here...
...Crumb's philosophy of life has been around for several thousand years. You either accept it or you don't. But even if you don't you can still enjoy the world that Crumb has created. Minor details are remembered, and are important - "SCHUMAN THE HUMAN better known as 'Baldy' goes forth with his fine mind to FIND GOD! And believe me, he took along a lunch!" Backgrounds add depth to situations-"Whiteman," the stereotypical businessman, walks down a street that has a traffic sign reading "Keep a tight asshole"; a frontier sheriff, who looks amazingly like LBJ, carries...
...number of the comic strips in this collection have appeared over the last couple of years in "Cavalier." It's easy to tell which ones; there is a hint of sex in most of the comics, but only these have a leering air about them. They still succeed, but Crumb does better work trying to satisfy his own sense of what's funny...
PAUL KRASSNER, in his introduction to this book, terms Crumb "the illegitimate offspring of Krazy Kat." George Herriman's great comic strip of the twenties wasn't centered around a philosophy of life, either. Its fantasy world was akin to Crumb's: the hopeless romantic (Krazy Kat), the skeptic who rejects her love (Ignatz Mouse), and, above both, the defender of society and justice (Offisa...
...drawing style of "Head Comix" is much more polished than that of "Krazy Kat," though. While Herriman's characters were often somewhat shakily drawn, Crumb's drawings are all well finished products. The style of the strips is a combination of the old Disney style (you may begin counting of the fingers), Herriman's style in "Krazy Kat," Popeye, the old Looney Tunes, Smokey Stover, and Crumb's own additions...