Others were Mad-style parody comics, which the 16-year old Charles and 14-year old Robert self-published in their own magazine Foo. Charles invented his own anthropomorphic animal characters: Fuzzy Bunny, Donny Dog and Fritz the Cat. Most imitated the "funny animal" stories they liked. They filled entire magazines with their black-and-white stories. Charles came up with the stories, and Robert drew everything. He actually wanted to be the next Disney and therefore forced Robert to produce dozens of comics. A family trip to Disneyland in 1955 was the "happiest day of his life", as he later confessed to Robert. Charles was a huge fan of Mad Magazine, Carl Barks and Walt Disney. He turned into a social outcast and stayed a lifelong virgin. He was severely bullied at school, which according to Robert Crumb, contributed to his mental problems. He suffered from an overactive imagination and repressed pedo/homosexual tendencies.
In Robert's case with comics, in Maxon's as a graphic artist and painter.Ĭharles was arguably the worst mental case. But at least Robert and Maxon found a way to earn money with their art. Youngest brother Maxon spent his adulthood as a celibate hermit. Robert Crumb grew into a deeply neurotic person with sexual fantasies which often repulsed him afterwards. The youngest child and second daughter, Sandra, was overly belittled by her mum and later became, as Robert Crumb described it: "a staunch lesbian with an irrational hatred for men". Only the oldest child, Carol, had a conventional life and career as an adult, working for a pharmaceutical company. Growing up in such an environment had a devastating effect on their five children. Crumb's mother had suffered an abusive childhood and took amphetamines, which gave her paranoid mood swings. A strict, conservative man, he would often beat his sons. His father was a World War II veteran, who worked as a trainer of supervisors. 'Treasure Island' strip by Charles Crumb.Ĭharles Crumb was born in 1942 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but at age 12 he moved with his family to Milford, Delaware. The awarded documentary 'Crumb' (1994) has brought posthumous interest to Charles' previously unpublished comics. He lived under heavy medication at his mother's home, fighting his repressed pedophiliac neuroses. Charles also drew comics on his own, but his mental problems kept him from ever publishing them.
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It has often been argued, even by Robert Crumb himself, that without Charles he might have never become a professional comic artist. Later, he also introduced him to more intellectual, philosophical and mystic literature. As the older brother of legendary underground artist Robert Crumb, he pressured his year and a half younger sibling to illustrate comics based on his stories. 'Fuzzy the Bunny', by Robert & Charles Crumb (Zap Comix #5, 1969).Ĭharles Crumb was a mid to late 20th century American comic writer and artist.
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