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Throwaway pens are no good - I never liked them. I've tried them all.

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Robert Crumb
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: August 30
Banjoist
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Drawer
Journalist
Musician
Novelist
Recording Artist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
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I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.
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I'm an outsider. I will always be an outsider.
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Some of the wealthy collectors have paid lots of money for artwork that I already did, but I didn't do it with the intention of catering to them. I think part of the reason my work is attractive to people like that is because it doesn't cater to them.
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I couldn't find any good pictures in magazines of ordinary modern street corners in America, so I persuaded this guy I knew in Sacramento - Stanley Something-or-other - to spend a day with me driving around just to take snapshots.
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The comics are where all the crazy subconscious stuff comes out.
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I lose patience with long stories. I get people who go, Crumb, do some long stories, do a graphic novel. Novel-schmovel.
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I was a child of American popular culture. All I did as a kid was what I could get at the local supermarket or the dime store. Nothing else was seen. Plus what was on television, or the movie theatre. That was it.
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I use photos a lot for drawing people and personalities, but they're almost never photos that I've taken.
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I didn't invent anything it's all there in the culture it's not a big mystery. I just combine my personal experience with classic cartoon stereotypes.
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I don't do album covers or CD covers for groups or musicians I don't like or have no interest in.
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I always had a sketchbook with me when I was young. I was hiding behind it, basically, hiding behind drawing because I couldn't cope with people in real life I was very shy and very nervous around people.
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You don’t have journalists over there anymore, what they have is public relations people. That’s what they have over in America now. Two-hundred and fifty thousand people in public relations. And a dwindling number of actual reporters and journalists.
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I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy.
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There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists.
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When I listen to old music, that's one of the few times that I actually have a kind of love for humanity.
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I'm into old-time music, I'm not very interested in modern, popular music at all. And if I'm really into some particular old-time musician, some fiddler or banjo player, I'm always dying of curiosity to see what they look like.
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I'm just a negative person, a deeply negative person. I see the worst aspects of everything.
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I guess I didn't enjoy drawing very much. It was like homework.
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Your vigor for life appalls me.
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Drawing is a way for me to articulate things inside myself that I can't otherwise grasp.
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