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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27. The shock of Crumb's original Swiftian satire becomes something different when repeated too often: becomes a fetish and a style.
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28. I think what is true of Crumb is also true of Charlie Hebdo: the anti-racist intent of shocking images blunted & reversed by repetition
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29. Shouldn't need to be said: to develop critique of Crumb & Hebdo is not at all to condone the vile murders & attacks on speech.
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20. Criticism has real role to play in helping understand toxic images and also in detoxifying them.
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31. Northrup Frye: Censorship is to criticism what lynching is to justice.
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32. I can never learn how to spell Northrop Frye's name.
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33. Criticism itself has a fraught relationship with cartooning. Crumb (and many other cartoonists) often hypersensitive to criticism.
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34. Of course all artists have fraught relationship with critics. But I think cartoonists even moreso than most.
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35. Energy of artists like Crumb comes from willingness to tap into their id. The critic is an unwelcome super-ego.
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36. Spiegelman ran into real trouble with fellow underground cartoonists because Spiegelman was too much a critic.
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37. Spiegelman urged his fellow underground cartoonists to refine their art -- because of their instinctive approach they resented.
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