![]() After a few years of fame, he retired from Zap to express the darker side of his nature. Although identified with the hippie crowd, he could not relate to their culture: `My main motivation was to get some of that free love action'. He was uninterested in money and once turned down a $100,000 contract a huge sum of money in those days. Zap was an outlet for his creative energy, which was rooted in his social difficulties. In 1966, his chemically inspired `revelations of some seamy side of America's subconscious' caught the eye of a Haight Street publisher in San Francisco and Zap Comix was born. Socially awkward, bullied at school and rejected by women, he decided in 1962 (at age 17) to take revenge upon society `by becoming a famous artist'. Crumb escaped the mental illness that ended both his brother's careers as artists (Charles was equally as talented), but otherwise had a perfectly miserable childhood and adolescence. During childhood, Crumb and his brothers Charles and Maxon found solace from their tyrannical father in comic books and drawing cartoons. Crumb is sometimes hilarious, often depressing and always entertaining a rare combination in a documentary film. Interviews with him, his wife Aline, family and friends reveal the motives behind his astounding creativity. The film focuses upon three decades of Crumb's artwork to reconstruct his unhappy childhood, days with Zap Comix in the late 60's, `dark side' period and recent life. Crumb takes a deeply personal look at 60's counterculture artist Robert Crumb.
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