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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38. The fist fight between Spiegelman and S. Clay Wilson was ultimately rooted in battle between instinctive id artist & super-ego critic.
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39. Instinctive artists very resistant to criticism: if you tell Crumb not do minstrel show image, he's much more likely to do it.
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40. Same principle: if you tell Charlie Hebdo not to draw Mohammed, they are much more likely to draw Mohammed.
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41. Do not think about an elephant. Do not draw the Prophet. You see the problem? The mind is not so easily harnessed.
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42. The underground cartoonist is by profession the class clown. Lectures by teachers or even detention is not going to stop them.
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43. In any case, criticism shouldn't be directed at getting artists to change their work but rather to help us understand that work.
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