{"product_id":"44622-robert-crumb-sketchbook-vol-5-1989-1998","title":"Robert Crumb. Sketchbook Vol․ 5․ 1989–1998","description":"As this volume opens we find our hero at age 46, solidly into the midlife crises years . Crumb has lived his entire life in anxious, introspective, self-flagellating crises, however, so the middle years bring only a refinement of his lifelong turmoil and further honing of artistic talent. More words accompany the drawings, demonstrating Crumb’s brilliant powers of observation , as in a long paragraph devoted to an encounter with one of brother Maxon’s vegan turds, and a poetic paean to the heartbreak of life and aging. The family’s move to Sauve, France , in 1991 is heralded by a switch from portraits of apple-cheeked American girls sketched while waiting for food in California cafes to portraits of girls in French cafes , by pastorals of rampant French countryside, and by haunting tableau of homeless beggars in the Metro. The most notable new character in this sketchbook is a turbaned holy man named, by young Sophie Crumb, Roman Dodo , who seems loosely inspired by Robert’s brother Maxon. Patricia Pig , a cheerful human\/porcine hybrid also debuts, alongside portraits of girlfriends present and past. As the artist advances into his mid-50s, towards the end of the volume, fantasies of regression to childhood dependence on strong female figures, and even of a good death , carried away on the back of a sturdy young angel, speak less of angst than acceptance of the aging process. Our curmudgeon finds a measure of peace, a certain French acceptance, of the cruel whims of fate. Until the final pages, when he pronounces himself, out of nowhere, “such a fucking QUEER.” All in all, another killer volume .","brand":"Weaving The Planet | Taschen | Alliance","offers":[{"title":"English","offer_id":53458119295189,"sku":"9783836566971","price":200000.0,"currency_code":"COP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6384\/7637\/files\/a8d3ef27637bcf07a21d7709cbe1006e.png?v=1773906388","url":"https:\/\/weavingtheplanet.com\/en\/products\/44622-robert-crumb-sketchbook-vol-5-1989-1998","provider":"Weaving The Planet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}