R. Crumb Means Some Offense (Published 2022)
Even from his refuge in France, the comics artist still makes America’s pulse race.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/15/t-magazine/r-crumb.html
Encountering Crumb today feels like being in a staring match with an artist who’s still almost daring the culture to eject him. “The average people out there,” he tells me, “what they know of my work … either they love it because they are degenerates themselves or they hate it because they stand with the forces of political correctness.” His iconography includes every taboo imaginable: not only incest and racism but also sexual assault, castration, self-mutilation and murder.