When people say 'What are underground comics?' I think the best way you can define them is just the absolute freedom involved... we didn't have anyone standing over us.
Interpretation
Underground comics represent artistic freedom without external constraints.
Robert Crumb highlights the essence of underground comics as a realm of creative liberation, where artists are unburdened by commercial pressures or oversight. This freedom allows for authentic expression, fostering unique narratives and styles that are often absent in mainstream comics.
In practice
During an art class, a student might refer to this quote to inspire peers about creating their own comics without fear.
Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straight-shooter, demonstrating the link between aggression and art. Every pictorial framing is a ritual limitation, a barred precinct.
The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here I am,” but to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here YOU are.
Composing a concert is like composing a menu.... If you start with light pieces and play a 45-minute sonata after the interlude, it's like starting dinner with hors d'oeuvres and dessert and finishing with a Châteaubriand and vegetables.
We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing.
I collect my tools: sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing, intellect. Night has fallen.
It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.
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