“When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate.”

— Robert Crumb

"Simon Hattenston talks to Robert Crumb" http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2005/mar/07/robertcrumb.comics, The Guardian, 7 March 2005.

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American cartoonist 1943

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