![]() ![]() The results go beyond his expectations, and soon Claudia can’t even leave her house without losing complete control of her sexual urges for all to see…Ĭlick!-a bestseller that was also adapted for the big screen-is “a short tale aiming for laughs over titillation,” says Manara in his introduction to the new edition. Fez learns of a sure-fire cure for impotence created by one of his ex-colleagues-a remote-controlled brain implant-and a plan begins to brew: if he can get the invention into Claudia Christiani, he can succeed in unleashing her libido. ![]() Fez, an acquaintance of her husband, compliments her on her “voluptuous curves.” In fact, she is repulsed by him, and their relationship develops in the vein of the impossible love story between Quasimodo and Esmeralda. When it comes to her own sexuality, she can only be described as frigid and reserved, so much so that she’s insulted when Dr. She’s married to an older man, a wealthy lawyer. The cover warns about explicit content, even though there’s not much of that going on… And, ultimately, what else could we have expected from Crumb?īeautiful Claudia Christiani is a member of Italian high society. They have been drawing themselves for the past forty years in Dirty Laundry Comics and Self-Loathing Comics, an autobiographical telling of their married life, with a passion that only intensified over the years. All in all, Robert Crumb ended up being a controversial figure…Ĭrumb is also a man in love with his wife, artist Aline Kominsky. Feminists accused him of misogyny, while other women felt he empowered them through his stories. All of a sudden, women started noticing him, and (who can blame him?) he didn’t waste a second. They made him a star of underground comics. ![]() And yet, Robert Crumb owes his success to these very drawings. Alas, the pleasure from these fantasies was quickly spoiled by feelings of guilt in My Troubles With Women, he reveals the sense of deviance that burdened him over his activities. At night he would fantasize about Sheena the jungle queen and then he would draw the pulpy creatures he dreamed of to feed his frantic masturbation. Robert sought refuge in drawing and his vivid imagination. He can’t exist,” Robert thought, “because he wouldn’t have made my life turn out like this.” They should have been more attracted to him, but instead preferred the hyper-confident, macho males. “Why do the most sensitive girls go for the most aggressive and violent guys?” teenage Robert wondered while drawing sketches that all the girls loved. And while he got on well with girls, sharing the same tastes and sensitivity, they chose the alpha males over him every time. Puberty was hell for Crumb, a high school misfit, more interested in the arts than getting into fights and playing sports. One of his books is aptly titled, My Troubles With Women. “All I do is think about sex and collecting old records,” he confides in Uncle Bob’s Mid-Life Crisis. He’s crazy about women with big butts and large calves and he likes to see them in the craziest situations. Robert Crumb is said to be a pervert (that’s why some readers love him). ![]()
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