A cinematic portrait of the controversial comic book writer/artist and his traumatized family.
This is an odd and often sad documentary surrounding the life of the iconic underground artist, Robert Crumb. Famed mainly for acid based comics in the 1960s and 70s, his style of perverse satire proves to be no stranger than his own reality as we find out what goes on behind the scenes.
Apparently when the film's producer needed to raise funds for the film, he encountered Terry Gilliam out of Monty Python, who he knew had worked with Robert Crumb
in the late 60s. Approaching Gilliam, he asked for some help with
the budget. Gilliam reached into his pocket, handed over a nickel and
then walked away. Terry Gilliam sounds like a prick if you ask me.
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