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if I wasn't drawing comics.

I don't think I would have done that.

I don't think I was as far gone as that.

Maybe I was just unconsciously

imitating the old man.

- What was he like?

- My father was an overbearing tyrant.

Yes, he was.

Maybe I was unconsciously imitating him

when I forced you to draw comic books.

There's still a kind of sibling rivalry

between me and Robert...

like there was when we were kids

and he was still living at home.

I think basically Robert and I

are still competing with each other.

It's like when I'm drawing comics,

I still think of Charles' approval...

whether or not he's going to like them.

Charles had everybody drawing comics

in the family.

The Animal Town Publishing Company.

That was a club we had...

where we sat around

and talked about comics.

I was usually the president.

Robert was usually the vice president.

Carol was usually the secretary...

and Sandy was the treasurer

and Maxon was the supply boy.

And he still resents that.

He still resents the fact we imposed

the role of supply boy on him.

Max Crumb in room 310?

Maxon was the scapegoat in the family.

Of five kids, he was definitely

on the bottom of the heap.

Just to explain...

we had these meetings for this club

Charles put together called...

The Animal Town Comics Club.

Something to do with comics.

Everybody had their job, a secretary,

a president, a vice president.

I was supply boy.

I got it more heavy or direct than

Robert, but there was the whole thing.

It was like a crazy sibling thing

between me, Charles and Robert...

in this room upstairs...

and the world didn't know

what the f*** was going on.

It was like three primordial monkeys

working it out in the trees.

Me and Maxon slept in the same bed

until we were 16 or something.

Very intimate, close situation.

Charles was inspired

by the Disney movie...

where Robert Newton plays

Long John Silver.

After we saw it on TV in 1955...

we started playing pirates

like normal kids do.

We'd go out and pretend.

We made this ship

out of an old refrigerator carton.

Charles would walk around town

dressed up like Long John Silver.

He had this old coat of my mother's,

this long, green coat.

He made himself a three-cornered hat

out of some woman's hat.

He had a crutch, and he'd tie up his leg

and go around town that way.

I didn't realize how fixated Charles was

on Treasure Island till years later.

This thing dominated our play

and our fantasy for six or seven years.

We drew these comics...

about Treasure Island, ' and it became

this real Baroque, elaborate thing...

way beyond the original Disney film.

This is one of Charles'.

This is one of our two-man comics

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