Crumb Page #6

- What?

- Fix that thing in the hallway.

- What thing?

- The window.

What's wrong with it?

- It's some film equipment or something.

- It's some kind of film equipment.

- Where are my kitty cats?

- I don't know.

Don't worry about it. It's all gonna be

out of here and back to normal.

Here it shows these girls talking about

how one of their friends...

got a date with Skutch

and how envious they all are.

This is how I felt about it.

I'm a little bitter about it,

as you can see.

I show here how I thought

that most teenage boys...

are very cruel and aggressive.

And if girls could see that I was more

kind and sensitive, they would like me.

They were kind of impressed

by the fact I could draw.

I couldn't understand why they liked

these cruel, aggressive guys and not me.

I was more kind and sensitive,

more like them.

I didn't realize they didn't want you

to be like them, basically.

I felt very hurt

and cruelly misunderstood...

because I considered myself

talented and intelligent...

and yet I was not

very attractive physically.

I didn't think those things mattered.

It was what's inside that was important.

When I was 13 and 14 and trying to be

a normal teenager, I was really a jerk.

I tried to act

like I thought they were acting.

It came out all wrong and weird,

so then I stopped completely...

and became a shadow,

I wasn't even there.

People weren't aware that I was...

in the same world they were in.

That freed me completely because

I wasn't under pressures to be normal.

So I got interested in old-time music,

and went to the black section of town...

knocking on doors

and looking for old records...

and things like that

that would be unthinkable...

if you were going to be

a normal teenager.

Starting about 17, I started being

driven by that obsession that...

I'll go down in history as

a great artist. That'll be my revenge.

This is my image

celebrating Valentine's Day.

February 13, 1962.

I decided to reject conforming

when society rejected me.

I've heard all about

that 'be yourself' stuff.

When I'm myself,

people think I'm nuts.

Guess I'll have to be satisfied

with cats and old records.

Girls are just utterly

out of my reach.

They won't even let me draw them.

All that changed

after I got famous.

Absolutely, I would love

to pose for you.

Excellent.

Anytime you want to come by and visit,

that'd be really nice.

- Excellent.

- I always wanted to see you again.

Some of the early Weirdo collages...

and also some publications.

We managed to track them down.

I think Crumb...

is basically the Brueghel

of the last half of the 20th century.

There wasn't a Brueghel of the first

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