14.Crumb's work was quickly translated into France and gave bolt of energy to French radical cartooning, which was on the rise.
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15. It's hardly an accident that Crumb and his cartoonist wife Aline (every bit as outre as he is) now live in France.
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16. Nor is it an accident that another famous underground cartoonist, Gilbert Shelton of Freak Bros. fame, is also now in France.
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17. Nor is it an accident that Art Spiegelman, who came out of underground comics, is married to French woman,
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18. When Francoise Mouly first saw the Spiegelman-edited Arcade it was very familiar to her: reminded her of French alternative comics.
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19. The controversial covers Mouly publishes on New Yorker are a more intelligent variation of tradition of USA undergrounds & Charlie Hebdo
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20. Consider this Spiegelman cover for The New Yorker http://flavorwire.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/newyorker-with-logo.jpg …
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21. That New Yorker cover seems like a precursor to this Charlie Hebdo cover: http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/static/world/charlie_hebdo/kissing_hebdo.jpg …
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22. Crass commercialism dept: for more on Mouly & the New Yorker, read this fine book: http://www.chbooks.com/catalogue/love-art …
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23. Crass commercialism, part 2. There is a Spiegelman show going on in Toronto: http://www.ago.net/art-spiegelmans-co-mix-a-retrospective … Worth a visit!
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24. Spiegelman is interesting conflicted about Crumb's use of racial stereotyping, in ways relevant to Charlie Hebdo.
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25. Spiegleman accepts (rightly I think) that Crumb's early racially charged humor is Swiftian satire -- brilliantly so.
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26. But Spiegelman also recognizes problem with fact Crumb didn't just do Angelfood McSpade a few time. He's kept doing it, again & again.
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