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Meus Problemas com as Mulheres
Em Meus Problemas com as Mulheres (Conrad Editora), Robert Crumb expõe alguns dos traços mais controversos de sua personalidade e de sua obra: a tumultuada mistura de devoção e desprezo pela figura feminina, a famosa fixação por mulheres de um determinado tipo físico, os fetichesbizarros e, acima de tudo, a coragem de transformar tudo isso em arte sem se deixar levar por nenhum tipo de autocensura ou autoindulgência.
Tímido, obsessivo, egocêntrico, inseguro, atormentado por um complexo de culpa tipicamente católico. Robert Crumb tinha tudo para ser um grande fracasso com as mulheres. E foi, pelo menos até 1968, quando, inspirado pelo LSD, se tornou uma espécie de herói da contracultura ao lançar sua revista de quadrinhos underground, a Zap Comix.
De uma hora para outra, ele se viu no centro das atenções das jovens hippies de San Francisco em plena era da liberação sexual. A partir daí, toda a hostilidade e as fantasias reprimidas a duras penas durante os primeiros anos de vida puderam se materializar em práticas sexuais nada convencionais e histórias em quadrinhos de uma franqueza arrebatadora.
Tímido, obsessivo, egocêntrico, inseguro, atormentado por um complexo de culpa tipicamente católico. Robert Crumb tinha tudo para ser um grande fracasso com as mulheres. E foi, pelo menos até 1968, quando, inspirado pelo LSD, se tornou uma espécie de herói da contracultura ao lançar sua revista de quadrinhos underground, a Zap Comix.
De uma hora para outra, ele se viu no centro das atenções das jovens hippies de San Francisco em plena era da liberação sexual. A partir daí, toda a hostilidade e as fantasias reprimidas a duras penas durante os primeiros anos de vida puderam se materializar em práticas sexuais nada convencionais e histórias em quadrinhos de uma franqueza arrebatadora.
100 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1990
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Robert Crumb
565 books523 followersRobert Dennis Crumb (born August 30, 1943)— is an American artist, illustrator, and musician recognized for the distinctive style of his drawings and his critical, satirical, subversive view of the American mainstream.
Crumb was a founder of the underground comix movement and is regarded as its most prominent figure. Though one of the most celebrated of comic book artists, Crumb's entire career has unfolded outside the mainstream comic book publishing industry. One of his most recognized works is the "Keep on Truckin'" comic, which became a widely distributed fixture of pop culture in the 1970s. Others are the characters "Devil Girl", "Fritz the Cat", and "Mr. Natural".
He was inducted into the comic book industry's Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1991.
Crumb was a founder of the underground comix movement and is regarded as its most prominent figure. Though one of the most celebrated of comic book artists, Crumb's entire career has unfolded outside the mainstream comic book publishing industry. One of his most recognized works is the "Keep on Truckin'" comic, which became a widely distributed fixture of pop culture in the 1970s. Others are the characters "Devil Girl", "Fritz the Cat", and "Mr. Natural".
He was inducted into the comic book industry's Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1991.
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January 15, 2025
I learned recently that Aline Kominsky-Crumb died, and felt the need to connect with some of Robert's work. They were together for somewhere close to forty-five years or so. I can only imagine what he's going through.
I've never met the Crumbs. But their facility with autobiographical comics is such that they've always felt like good friends somehow.
Not that I need much of an excuse to read a Robert Crumb book.
My Troubles With Women gathers together a collection of Crumb's 80's work, much of it from Weirdo and Hup. His work from this era has always been special to me since that was the decade where I first discovered it. Several of the strips are collaborations with Aline. Despite the difference in their drawing styles, the pieces work quite well.
Normally at this point in the review, I'd mention some individual stories that stood out for me. But there are so many of those here, I may as well just list everything. I will say that "I'm Grateful! I'm Grateful!" does a fine job of acting as a counterexample to those who accuse Crumb of negativity. As best I can tell, he tends to emphasize his worst qualities when doing comics about himself, a trait he shares with folks like Joe Matt and Harvey Pekar. Working without a net.
Crumb's work is not for everyone. He will absolutely go anywhere (mentally) if the story demands it. There's a reason he's considered the granddaddy of the underground.
I've never met the Crumbs. But their facility with autobiographical comics is such that they've always felt like good friends somehow.
Not that I need much of an excuse to read a Robert Crumb book.
My Troubles With Women gathers together a collection of Crumb's 80's work, much of it from Weirdo and Hup. His work from this era has always been special to me since that was the decade where I first discovered it. Several of the strips are collaborations with Aline. Despite the difference in their drawing styles, the pieces work quite well.
Normally at this point in the review, I'd mention some individual stories that stood out for me. But there are so many of those here, I may as well just list everything. I will say that "I'm Grateful! I'm Grateful!" does a fine job of acting as a counterexample to those who accuse Crumb of negativity. As best I can tell, he tends to emphasize his worst qualities when doing comics about himself, a trait he shares with folks like Joe Matt and Harvey Pekar. Working without a net.
Crumb's work is not for everyone. He will absolutely go anywhere (mentally) if the story demands it. There's a reason he's considered the granddaddy of the underground.
April 8, 2018
A perverted and somehow more neurotic Woody Allen, that's how I described Robert Crumb to my sister when she scanned through the pages looking at the artwork. Having completed the book now I'm partial to spare Woody Allen the comparison even in the face of the fact that I loved this book. My Troubles with Women seem as good as place as any to start with Robert Crumb, because it gives you an honest look at the man's art and his particular aesthetic.
Robert Crumb is an honest man and an honest artist, and so in these works he bares his honest thoughts, desires, and eccentricities bare. This book is one long confession about sex, and how Crumb would have liked to have it, and sometimes does have it, and this in turn can be bothersome to a more sensitive reader. If you are souls bastard such as myself who believes nothing is sacred, this book is sure to give you a few giggles.
My Troubles With Women is the work of a more mature artist who understands and knows who and what he is. It's the work of an artist who is comfortable in their flaws, and comfortable with opening their chest and showing their reader their secret heart. Int he case Robert Crumb is neurotic, sex-crazed heart who has a penchant for women with big butts and thighs, but everyone has their thing. This book was fascinating to read, largely because I'm a fan of comics, and since Crumb is recognized as one of the early "big dogs" of the Comix movement (the independent comic scene in the United States that wasn't Marvel or DC) I wanted to read his work.
I'll probably need a shower and a good reading of Gloria Steinem after this, but after everything I will say that this book was amazing for it's honesty. I just can't believe anyone would be this honest about their perversions, but then again I write mostly reviews about books about black penises, sex between men, and the strange and wonderful sexual abilities of lesbians so perhaps I should reevaluate that statement.
Cheer to Robert Crumb.
Robert Crumb is an honest man and an honest artist, and so in these works he bares his honest thoughts, desires, and eccentricities bare. This book is one long confession about sex, and how Crumb would have liked to have it, and sometimes does have it, and this in turn can be bothersome to a more sensitive reader. If you are souls bastard such as myself who believes nothing is sacred, this book is sure to give you a few giggles.
My Troubles With Women is the work of a more mature artist who understands and knows who and what he is. It's the work of an artist who is comfortable in their flaws, and comfortable with opening their chest and showing their reader their secret heart. Int he case Robert Crumb is neurotic, sex-crazed heart who has a penchant for women with big butts and thighs, but everyone has their thing. This book was fascinating to read, largely because I'm a fan of comics, and since Crumb is recognized as one of the early "big dogs" of the Comix movement (the independent comic scene in the United States that wasn't Marvel or DC) I wanted to read his work.
I'll probably need a shower and a good reading of Gloria Steinem after this, but after everything I will say that this book was amazing for it's honesty. I just can't believe anyone would be this honest about their perversions, but then again I write mostly reviews about books about black penises, sex between men, and the strange and wonderful sexual abilities of lesbians so perhaps I should reevaluate that statement.
Cheer to Robert Crumb.
November 30, 2022
Much of My Troubles With Women is about Crumb's perverted fantasies which includes one story in which he is a King and well ..... abuses his power and has his way with everyone including the women. But it is also about the simple pleasures of life available to Crumb because he pursued his passion and does not have to report for a job. His interest in obscure music and art occupies many hours of his life and fulfills him. A lesson there for all the bored and the depressed people of today. The fact that he has a sexy reputation as an underground creator of flagrant comics attracts the well endowed women he coveted as a teenager. Of course, it isn't all easy for Crumb. He is candid about the bourgeois life that him and his wife Aline and their cantankerous kid leads. There are passages of creative blocks in his life when he cannot seem to get out of bed and goes on and on brooding about the mundane issues of daily life. Then there is his voracious sexual appetite. You think men really grow out of their juvenile fantasies and jealousies? No. They just try to douse their fire with alcohol and shitty art. Not Crumb! None of the clunky and heavy characters that are moral melting pots, a staple of post world war 2 American literature and movies. Crumb's stories are so free wheeling. He almost trivializes sexual perversion and being perpetually horny.
A bit about the drawings: Crumb cannot draw hands and feet well. But he is a master of face expressions and has a great appreciation of the rest of the female anatomy. The drawings are inferior in his collaborations with wife Aline. I wonder if he did that deliberately and whether he was forced to work with her. She is sort of a weirdo herself. So maybe not.
Crumb is not someone who holds back. He is so much better than the pompous grandstanding celebrities and artists of popular culture over the last few decades. Hollywood and mainstream American music have nothing on this great man. What a bunch of phonies they all are. All Hail King Crumb!
A bit about the drawings: Crumb cannot draw hands and feet well. But he is a master of face expressions and has a great appreciation of the rest of the female anatomy. The drawings are inferior in his collaborations with wife Aline. I wonder if he did that deliberately and whether he was forced to work with her. She is sort of a weirdo herself. So maybe not.
Crumb is not someone who holds back. He is so much better than the pompous grandstanding celebrities and artists of popular culture over the last few decades. Hollywood and mainstream American music have nothing on this great man. What a bunch of phonies they all are. All Hail King Crumb!
June 5, 2014
repentant and unrepentant. Also I love the confessional tone. Made me think of Wife Of Bath (Chaucer). The graphics are amazing. Crumb is different as he focuses both on dialogue and graphics. The last strip is the best.
March 7, 2011
this was my first crumb work ever read, so it amazed me how good it felt for me while reading it. at first i thought i would hate it. i'm not into his drawing style, but at some point they don't anoy me that much.
February 27, 2008
Issue #1: Is R. Crumb a talented man? Yes. Is his wife? Not in any way. Her artistic/literary contributions were an eye/brain sore.
Issue #2: Um... R. Crumb sure is creepy. Like, really really creepy. I think that definitely swayed my judgment.
Issue #2: Um... R. Crumb sure is creepy. Like, really really creepy. I think that definitely swayed my judgment.
February 3, 2008
I thought that reading some stories by my favorite ugly social retard might give me some insight into how to cope with being an ugly social retard. Not really, I had already read most of these in other Crumb books.
July 31, 2010
Crumb has a simple art style and storytelling method, but the compelling nature of his confessional delivers a product that transcends these factors, creating an unputdownable reading experience.
December 12, 2021
Story: ****
This is a collection of autobiographical shorts scattered throughout the 1980s. All about his awkwardness with women, they are hysterical and truly bizarre. He has such an interesting array of mental complexes and fetishes in which almost definitely none are shied away from.
Those that address his youth and his behavior when he had gained celebrity are by far the best while those featuring Aline, his current wife, are very weak in comparison. They contain interest but aren't nearly as entertaining.
Art: ****
Crumb's work below five stars? That's not because of him, it's Aline's HORRIBLE rendering of herself as the co-star of about half of the stories within. It's so bad that I think that I could do better with a handful of lessons on the human figure despite my absolute lack of talent or training. Sometimes her head is even warped out of an oval shape! That confused me because I have read her work at length more than twice and I remember it being at least serviceable. Maybe she was still new to the pencil when these were published in the 1980s.
Robert drew all of the rest in his legendary and inimitable style that needs no examination here.
This is a collection of autobiographical shorts scattered throughout the 1980s. All about his awkwardness with women, they are hysterical and truly bizarre. He has such an interesting array of mental complexes and fetishes in which almost definitely none are shied away from.
Those that address his youth and his behavior when he had gained celebrity are by far the best while those featuring Aline, his current wife, are very weak in comparison. They contain interest but aren't nearly as entertaining.
Art: ****
Crumb's work below five stars? That's not because of him, it's Aline's HORRIBLE rendering of herself as the co-star of about half of the stories within. It's so bad that I think that I could do better with a handful of lessons on the human figure despite my absolute lack of talent or training. Sometimes her head is even warped out of an oval shape! That confused me because I have read her work at length more than twice and I remember it being at least serviceable. Maybe she was still new to the pencil when these were published in the 1980s.
Robert drew all of the rest in his legendary and inimitable style that needs no examination here.
November 24, 2013
This collection of Crumb's is both notorious and celebrated.
Back in the day of the underground comics movement (when I was collecting) I never liked Crumb's work at all and have avoided it since. Its female grostesques were a bit hard to take as though his primary satire was women's buttocks.
If you know Crumb, you know what I mean.
But then, you have to begrudge him his due: he can draw and spin a story.
Thus his significant influence.
My Troubles With Women hasn't converted me to Crumb fandom -- and getting to know him up close on the page has only soured me more-- but you still have to read this...'if only for the interviews'.
The bastard can draw...
Back in the day of the underground comics movement (when I was collecting) I never liked Crumb's work at all and have avoided it since. Its female grostesques were a bit hard to take as though his primary satire was women's buttocks.
If you know Crumb, you know what I mean.
But then, you have to begrudge him his due: he can draw and spin a story.
Thus his significant influence.
My Troubles With Women hasn't converted me to Crumb fandom -- and getting to know him up close on the page has only soured me more-- but you still have to read this...'if only for the interviews'.
The bastard can draw...
February 21, 2018
Very graphic and very confessional. What makes Crumb’s writing so enticing is his ability to channel common deeply introspective feelings while taking away the blame by turning only himself into the sex-crazed degenerate we all may be.
I didn’t like his wife’s work though - the art is whacky and didn’t serve the stories, and her writing is super stilted. Interesting how much R. Crumb praises her though.
I didn’t like his wife’s work though - the art is whacky and didn’t serve the stories, and her writing is super stilted. Interesting how much R. Crumb praises her though.
August 21, 2018
Sim, Robert Crumb é doido e pervertido, mas desenha bem para K-ralho! :-P
Aviso: Essa HQ poderá irritar profundamente as mulheres e pessoas "politicamente corretas"!
A parte chata é a referencia a pedofilia numa página quando ele fala de uma garota de 14 anos... Acho que a Editora Conrad poderia ter cortado isso. :-/
Aviso: Essa HQ poderá irritar profundamente as mulheres e pessoas "politicamente corretas"!
A parte chata é a referencia a pedofilia numa página quando ele fala de uma garota de 14 anos... Acho que a Editora Conrad poderia ter cortado isso. :-/
January 3, 2011
Yes, it's a cartoon, but don't let that fool you -- it deserves a place among serious literature. When I first read it I thought I was reading the story of my own life. It's excruciating to read because it hits home so deeply.
July 27, 2013
Confessional, embarrassing, realistic portrait filled with humor and irony of the darker sexual fantasies of men, the imagined slights and petty envy, interspersed with tedious reality of everyday life. It all rings painfully true ...
May 22, 2016
Crumb is a fantastic artist, and uses several different styles to great effect in this collection. It’s also admirable that he puts so much of himself onto the page and talks about ideas and fantasies most of us would never admit to having. I just wasn’t ever very interested.
January 10, 2010
Truth from a master. Repentant or unrepentant, Crumb is the man.
March 31, 2011
p. hilarious.
August 1, 2012
My first experience reading Crumb...good stuff, great art - I wasn't fond of Aline's art but oh well. I am getting a little tired of pervy male confessionals, though, ha.
December 7, 2012
Muito engraçado e incrivelmente bem desenhado.
April 1, 2013
awesome.
March 21, 2015
Robert Crumb al suo meglio
August 29, 2016
Crumb's neurotic ramblings and strange art style are certainly amusing, a blast from the past and a very strange slice of life.
October 11, 2023
It's definitely not for everyone.
Robert Crumb is- in my opinion - a scum on earth, a male chauvinist and an idiot.
Still it's really hard for me to give manga/graphic novels/comics less than 4 stars so I gave 'My Troubles with Women'' 4 low stars - interpret as a 3 stars book - which here means that don't pick this one, don't even look at it, just forget all about it.
Robert Crumb is- in my opinion - a scum on earth, a male chauvinist and an idiot.
Still it's really hard for me to give manga/graphic novels/comics less than 4 stars so I gave 'My Troubles with Women'' 4 low stars - interpret as a 3 stars book - which here means that don't pick this one, don't even look at it, just forget all about it.
April 9, 2020
روبرت كرامب ليس لديه ما يخفيه عنك كقاريء، حتى أكثر التفاصيل التي يتحرج الجميع عن ذكرها إلا في الجلسات المغلقة، يحدثك عن إحباطاته العديدة مع الفتيات والنساء وعدم نيله لملذات الجنس سوى بعد الشهرة، يحدثك عن غرامه وهوسه الشديد بالمؤخرات الكبيرة دون أن يعتذر عن ذلك، يفتح أمامك خزان خيالاته الجنسية العجيبة، واﻷجمل حين تشاركه زوجته جانب كبير في السرد في عدد من القصص في هذه المجموعة.
December 15, 2022
A man of strange tastes — I guess that was his trouble — but I take a star off because a man as well-laid as a famous cartoonist can’t really be said to have any trouble with women (except for what their personalities are like, which he covers well).
June 15, 2020
If you're looking for angsty, self-revealing, self-loathing sexy stuff that's amazingly drawn, well this is your one-stop shop.
November 5, 2020
I love the artwork. It's beauty in it's simplicity.
May 3, 2022
Depraved but good
June 7, 2024
Some of it's cool, and I know it's all goofy haha jokes, but idk there's just a bit too much dwelling on women loving power and confidence in men for me, even as an unserious statement :/
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September 22, 2020Ay, ay, ay, ay. My own troubles with woman and men and animals and everything else in between.
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