Review: "X-Files"

“JFK” + Aliens = “X-Files.”

Crumb Bum

For the record, R. Crumb is one of my favorite cartoonists. Ralph Bakshi is another. Crumb repeatedly savages "Fritz the Cat" as pure Hollywood. It ain't fair. Bakshi has taken pure shit from Hollywood and opened the door to true geniuses like John K. It's an Alpha-Male pissing contest on RC's part, ie, "There ain't room for two outlaw genius cartoonists in this town, pardner."

Not to keep grinding the same axe, but like I said, I wish R. Crumb (and filmmaker Terry Zwigoff) had thrown a few crumbs to the SoCal underground cartooning scene. I.e., Crumb wasn't some solitary genius crying in the wilderness like a mad prophet. There was Bobby London, Gilbert Shelton, Vic Mososco, R. Cobb ... I could go on, but ya get the point. He kinda hogs all the credit to himself.

Unified Field of Market Research

OK. Robert Crumb's quote bears repeating...

"Everybody walks around in these t-shirts with somebody's logo on it -- they're walking advertisements. It used to be people fermented their own culture outside this thing created to make money, but we're turning into one big unified field of market research. I'm disgusted with people who don't have any intellectual curiosity about what's behind all this jive bullshit."