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A review by hypops
The Book of Mr. Natural by Robert Crumb
3.0
Crumb’s Mr. Natural comics blend classic gag strips with television sitcoms, by way of underground comix. Mr. Natural and Flaky Foont are a kind of “odd couple” in which Foont plays the uptight, neurotic, sexually frustrated straight-man to Mr. Natural’s amoral, nihilistic, sexually potent hippie-trickster figure.
At its best, the comic skewers straight, bourgeois culture and the counterculture. When it’s good, it’s great. If only there were a way to ignore Crumb’s depiction of women. Alas. Because he uses comics to voice unconscious or otherwise repressed desires, this collection is filled with unmitigated straight-male sexual fantasy.
At its best, the comic skewers straight, bourgeois culture and the counterculture. When it’s good, it’s great. If only there were a way to ignore Crumb’s depiction of women. Alas. Because he uses comics to voice unconscious or otherwise repressed desires, this collection is filled with unmitigated straight-male sexual fantasy.