what be the odds that an artist can survive family violence and mental illness and sexual rejection and and big mac culture . as far a this film can make clear and three member of the crumb family have strong artistic temperament and significant talent . only one and robert and make it out alive and and his life and work be define by resistance to what should have be a sad fate . to many and this documentary may be depress and offensive to woman and or just too damn ugly to sit through and but it make me as happy a anything i have ever see on screen . art ability to reveal truth and promote survival be evident in every frame . i admire r. crumb courage to speak unpopular truth and to draw what get him off and and to ferret out the art he love at considerable expense and trouble ( he a blue maven while one of my favorite scene and where he sit on his floor absorb by ache music and be echo in ghost world and when enid take home seymour record and get lose in her favorite song ) . and like ghost world and ratty and real american culture be rail at hilariously represent another favorite scene involve r. on a park bench and disgustedly comment on the ugliness of everything around him represent logo emblazon clothes and graceless music and ugly plastic everything . by the end of it all and i respect and like him crumb enormously . i would take his scary woman worship over the banal musing of a dime store philosopher any day . and terry zwigoff deserves much praise for be able to pull it off ( especially a a first time filmmaker who have very little idea what he be do ) . from high art and family pathos to a lovely animal appreciation of big round female ass and this be far more a roller coaster and i laugh or i cry film than most others so tout .