jonh's review
4.0
Suitably trippy, and I like some of the ideas Crumb expounds.
It's a little exhausting sometimes, though. Just going on and on and you can't really feel a suitable end for it.
I also find his depictions of race to be incredibly problematic. Crumb's a smart writer, and I've been assuming he draws the way he does for a very good, critical reason. But nevertheless, the use of minstrel imagery definitely raises an eyebrow.
It's good to be reading the work of R. Crumb that made him an underground legend. I've read his mainstream work and I enjoy his art style thoroughly. But I want to get him as an artist in total. So far, I'm liking it.
It's a little exhausting sometimes, though. Just going on and on and you can't really feel a suitable end for it.
I also find his depictions of race to be incredibly problematic. Crumb's a smart writer, and I've been assuming he draws the way he does for a very good, critical reason. But nevertheless, the use of minstrel imagery definitely raises an eyebrow.
It's good to be reading the work of R. Crumb that made him an underground legend. I've read his mainstream work and I enjoy his art style thoroughly. But I want to get him as an artist in total. So far, I'm liking it.
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