The almost notoriously withdrawn artist recently revealed in a New Yorker cartoon how he felt about revealing himself in 'Crumb.' Lying in his bed, with his head on a pillow, Crumb tells the juggernaut of a camera obtrusively poised above him, 'I'm nauseous.'Īs Crumb surely knows, 'nauseous,' in proper usage, refers to something sickening or disgusting enough to cause nausea. 'I don't feel one way or the other about it,' Crumb says. Toward the end of the film, as he and his family prepare to leave their home in Southern California for a new life in the South of France, Zwigoff asks him how he feels, leaving his brothers and mother forever. When an ex-girlfriend recalls how cruelly he mistreated her 20 years earlier, Crumb aggressively puts his hands on her face, pushing it out of the camera's way. This documentary tells the story of Greg LeMond, the first non-European to win the grueling Tour de France in 1986. 1994, Documentary, 1h 59m 95 Tomatometer 44 Reviews 89 Audience Score 5,000+ Ratings What to know Critics Consensus Crumb is a frank and surreal chronicle of artistic expression and family. This exhibition, curated by Robert Storr, focuses on Crumb’s sketchbooks from. When Charles bares his ruined life, Robert laughs and makes wisecracks. Photograph: Kerry McFate/Courtesy the artist, Paul Morris and David Zwirner.

While he is very good at exposing the demons from the id that drive human behavior, he is almost equally adept at escaping his own feelings. But what 'Crumb' is best at is showing us how effectively Crumb has protected himself.

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