Page from Weirdo magazine Robert Crumb 1993
Social outcasts are a mainstay for many of Robert Crumb’s cartoons. In this drawing, a crazed beggar directly addresses the viewer, praising comics as a “one of the most significant cultural artefacts of this era”. Could this be a thinly veiled disguise of Crumb’s personal views on the comic book medium? Or perhaps a tongue-in-cheek satire on the comic book nerd stereotype?
















