“As a kid growing up in the 1950s I became acutely aware of the changes taking place in American culture and I must say I didn't much like it. I witnessed the debasement of architecture, and I could see a decline in the quality of things like comic books and toys, things made for kids. Old things seemed to have more life, more substance, more humanity in them.”

—  Robert Crumb

The R. Crumb Handbook by Robert Crumb and Peter Poplaski (2005), p. 23

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