In the late ‘60s, R. Crumb’s psychedelic comics—including the characters Fritz the Cat, Mr. Natural, Devil Girl and the popular Keep on Truckin’ cartoon— propelled him overnight to celebrity status in San Francisco’s burgeoning underground scene.
While Crumb’s style and overt sexual imagery was hailed by critics it also led to obscenity arrests, copyright lawsuits and IRS angst. Finally,in the mid-’80s Crumb began to receive widespread recognition for the importance of his work, which unapologetically unveiled the disturbing side of the American psyche.
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