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Robert crumb documentary

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Perhaps 'Crumb,' a documentary that took six years to shoot, will put the record straight: that the gangly, porkpie-hatted, gonzo satirist is an American artist of the highest order. * The 'Keep on Truckin' ' poster, that modern-folkloric panel of three bearded men walking in step and leaning backward as if they are human Harley-Davidsons. * His cover design for the album 'Cheap Thrills' by Janis Joplin's Big Brother and the Holding Company. ('An embarrassment to me for the rest of my life,' he says.) * Fritz the Cat, his comic book character made famous by Ralph Bakshi's porno-art film of the same name. IN TERRY Zwigoff's superb, revealing 'Crumb,' cartoonist Robert Crumb makes the misanthropic lament that he will be best remembered for three things:

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Graphic comic book illustrations, disturbing sexual confessions and profanity

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