Robert Crumb was born in Philadelphia on Aug. 'The only burning passion I'm sure I have,' he once said, 'is the passion for sex.' And the '70s sucked even worse and he's not that enthused about drawing and he really hates Bruce Springsteen. There's only one problem with this - Crumb despised the '60s hippie ethos he came to represent for so many people. In fact, Crumb's repeated rejection of commercial opportunities (he once turned down an offer to do a Rolling Stones album cover because he hated the band) marks him as one of the last remaining exemplars of the egalitarian '60s hippie ethos he came to represent for so many people. But Crumb's career has never been about maximizing financial possibilities - that would mean signing on with mainstream pop culture, which Crumb, of course, despises. His status as the bull-goose legend of underground cartooning meant that in the early '90s he was able to trade six of his sketchbooks for a house in the South of France. Coming from the author of 'Self-Loathing Comics,' you can take that to the bank.Ĭrumb certainly did. 'At least I hate myself as much as I hate anybody else,' Crumb once said. Crumb surveyed the urban landscape of his era and pronounced his verdict: Everything sucks big time, including humanity and, most especially, Robert Crumb. Here's a likely candidate - years from now it will be widely circulated that the word 'crummy' derives from the work of cartoonist Robert Crumb, a world-class malcontent of the late 20th century. Still, those popular misconceptions and countless others survive through constant repetition, and someday they will be joined by new linguistic fables even now being born.

The word 'gringo' was not inspired by the American troops who sang 'Green grow the grasses-o,' during the Mexican-American War - the word was in use 100 years previously. Sir Thomas Crapper did not really invent the flush toilet.

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