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| name = Charles Crumb |
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| birth_date = 1942 |
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| birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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| death_date = February {{death year and age|1993|1942}} |
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| death_place = Philadelphia |
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| occupation = [[Artist]] |
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| parents = Charles and Beatrice Crumb |
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'''Charles Vincent Crumb, Jr.''' (1942 - February 1993<ref name="ew" />) was an [[United States|American]] artist and the brother of the [[cartoonist]] [[Robert Crumb]]. |
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Charles often appears as a character in Robert Crumb's comic stories and autobiographical writings; Robert credits Charles' childhood obsession with making comics as the foundation of Robert's own devotion to his art. |
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As Charles entered adulthood he began showing signs of mental illness, due to what he himself described as his "[[homosexual]] [[pedophilia]]c tendencies". As a teenager he had already developed a particular obsession for [[Bobby Driscoll]], child star of the film ''[[Treasure Island (1950 film)|Treasure Island]]'', and much of his artwork focused on themes and characters from the film and novel. According to his own testimony, Charles Crumb never succumbed to his urges and remained determined not to. Throughout the years, he remained constantly terrified that his sexual tendencies could be discovered by his mother, or by anyone.<ref>[[Robert Crumb]], [[Maxon Crumb]] (edited by), ''Crumb comics: the whole family is crazy!'', Last Gasp, 1998, pp. 29-33</ref> |
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During his adult life, he never left his family home and rarely ventured outside of it, where he lived with his mother. At this point his artwork exhibited repetitive and painstaking concentric lines filling in otherwise normal Crumb-esque drawings, reflecting an obsession with filling every last centimeter of white space. |
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Charles Crumb and his artwork received wide public attention as a result of the success of the 1994 feature-length documentary film ''[[Crumb (film)|Crumb]],'' in which Charles and some of his work are featured prominently. His artwork, including notebooks filled with [[Asemic writing|tiny gestural marks that suggest handwriting]], has been published and exhibited, sometimes in the context of [[outsider art]]. His mother threw out a great deal of his artwork as she thought "no one would be interested in it." |
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In the film ''[[Crumb (film)|Crumb]]'', R. Crumb describes how Charles would often react to things by saying "How perfectly goddamned delightful it all is, to be sure." It was a catch-phrase of his. Robert remarks, "Whenever he said that, it always took the wind out of my sails." |
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Charles Crumb committed suicide in February 1993.<ref name="ew">''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' article: "[http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,297416,00.html R. Crumb's Family Circus]."</ref> He reportedly died as a result of an overdose.<ref name="ew" /> The producer of the film, David Lynch himself said that he thought to cast Charles in one of his movies. |
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"Crumb" was dedicated to his memory. |
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==External reviews== |
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* {{IMDb name|0190047}} |
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== Sources consulted == |
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=== Notes === |
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===References=== |
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* ''[[Crumb (film)|Crumb]]'' ([[Terry Zwigoff]], 1994) |
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* ''Crumb Family Comics'' (Last Gasp, 1997) |
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* ''[[The Complete Crumb Comics]]'' (Fantagraphics, 1997–2005) |
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* ''Your Vigor for Life Appalls Me: Robert Crumb Letters 1958-1977'' (Fantagraphics, 1998) |
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{{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. --> |
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| NAME = Crumb, Charles |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION = Artist |
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| DATE OF BIRTH = 1942 |
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| PLACE OF BIRTH = [[United States]] |
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| DATE OF DEATH = 1992 |
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| PLACE OF DEATH = [[United States]] |
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Crumb, Charles}} |
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[[Category:American comics artists]] |
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[[Category:American comics writers]] |
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[[Category:Outsider artists]] |
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[[Category:Artists who committed suicide]] |
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[[Category:1942 births]] |
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[[Category:1992 deaths]] |
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[[Category:Artists from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] |
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