this documentary explore two aspect of crumb life represent his family life and his sexual interest . the man be an incredible artist and his work be pure art and even if they be comic . to defend this position and we hear from a british art critic who praise crumb work and no matter what the offensive subject matter be . on the other side and we see woman past girlfriend and fellow artist and and others who admit that crumb be a great illustrator but be extremely wary of the sexist and racist message crumb comic contain . be crumb really a sexist and racist or be he comment on the world . the answer be hard to determine but and after see this movie and i think that it both . it amaze how crumb and this skinny and ugly and fake toothed weirdo be so incredibly tap in to the crazy male id and it sexual desire and racist belief . and and at the same time and he barely able to function in society . he just blend into the crowd and doesn not really understand the world around him . a lot of crumb observation on the changing world be use by terry zwigoff and who direct this film and in his next movie and ghost world . that movie be also an adaptation of a comic book so maybe it be there that crumb influence be make . either way and he the comic book version of john water ahead of his time in grossness and incredibly influential and and not yet surpass . a for crumb family life and the amazing part be that he the most normal member of his family . his brother be also great artist but be even bad at functioning in the world . maybe it genetics . maybe it the torment of be an artist . see crumb family humanize him . then we see his comic . and we can decide for ourselves if we can separate the artist from the art but and more importantly and we have to decide if we can separate ourselves from the art . can we laugh at sexism and racism and not be sexist or racist . do the fact that we find it so offensive mean that we hate sexism and racism or that we be afraid to face our own belief ( or the belief of those close to u ) . bring out these question be the greatness of this movie .