:12:03
So Crumb showed me this comic book novel
he was working on.
:12:07
Big Yum Yum Book.
:12:08
I'd never seen anything like it.
:12:10
This is terrific. I really dig your work, man.
:12:13
This Peter Wheat book is by Walt Kelly.
It's pretty rare.
:12:17
- Yeah? Can I get good bread for it?
- Not yet.
:12:22
Let's get back to your book.
What are you gonna do with it?
:12:25
I haven't really thought about it.
It's just an exercise.
:12:29
No, man. It's more than just an exercise.
:12:33
It's breaking ground, man.
There's some wild shit in here, Bob.
:12:38
You're spitting on me, Harvey.
:13:01
Crumb and I hung out a lot back then.
:13:05
We had records and comics in common.
:13:11
Check it out, man.
:13:16
Pretty scary.
:13:20
You don't know the half of it, man.
:13:23
Eventually, people got hip
to Crumb's artwork...
:13:26
and he started hanging out
with the bohemian crowd.
:13:30
After a while, he got sick of greeting cards
and moved away to San Francisco...
:13:34
where he got the whole underground
comic scene off the ground.
:13:42
He'd come back to Cleveland
every few years...
:13:44
and people would treat him like a celebrity.
:13:58
Once, he came to visit
when I was feeling real bad.