Week Six: Whiteman by Robert Crumb
Before choosing a comic to read for the week, I typically browse through each link posted and see what catches my eye. When first opening the Robert Crumb's Whiteman I noticed the first panel consisted of a couple in an RV. The RV had me sold immediately due to the fact that I'm in the midst of designing a RV for my first year Interior Design final and all my thoughts have recently been flooded with RV's; little did I know what I was getting myself into.
I immediately picked up the humor when Crumb introduced Whiteman and his wife bickering over him wanting to quit his job and embrace traveling. She also kept calling the RV a Jeep, haha, classic. Anyhow, this was hands down the most bawdy piece I've read (this may beat Fifty Shades of Grey, no joke). I seriously had a double-take when Whiteman first had his sexual encounter with Yeti. I found myself immediately backtracking panels to confirm what I thought I had just read.
I have to give Crumb props for the creativity but this was really one fucking weird storyline. I was not expecting to read such detail between the sexual encounter, like the fingering and the sound affects (gag). However, I read the entire thing, so I guess he did something right with being able to engage the reader entirely. Because it was so obscure, you know a human having sexual encounters with a furry beast, I think it sucked me in (pun NOT intended).
I feel somewhat weird adding this considering the sexual degree of the storyline but I believe that there was also passion that wrapped the storyline up. In the beginning Whiteman was talking about how he wished to quit his job, live in his RV and explore. Although he did not quit his job, nor did he end up living in his RV, seemingly with his wife, he ultimately left the life he had to explore. If Crumb had not included the first scene of Whitman day-dreaming of exploring, I do not think this storyline would have ultimately been as strong.
I immediately picked up the humor when Crumb introduced Whiteman and his wife bickering over him wanting to quit his job and embrace traveling. She also kept calling the RV a Jeep, haha, classic. Anyhow, this was hands down the most bawdy piece I've read (this may beat Fifty Shades of Grey, no joke). I seriously had a double-take when Whiteman first had his sexual encounter with Yeti. I found myself immediately backtracking panels to confirm what I thought I had just read.
I have to give Crumb props for the creativity but this was really one fucking weird storyline. I was not expecting to read such detail between the sexual encounter, like the fingering and the sound affects (gag). However, I read the entire thing, so I guess he did something right with being able to engage the reader entirely. Because it was so obscure, you know a human having sexual encounters with a furry beast, I think it sucked me in (pun NOT intended).
I feel somewhat weird adding this considering the sexual degree of the storyline but I believe that there was also passion that wrapped the storyline up. In the beginning Whiteman was talking about how he wished to quit his job, live in his RV and explore. Although he did not quit his job, nor did he end up living in his RV, seemingly with his wife, he ultimately left the life he had to explore. If Crumb had not included the first scene of Whitman day-dreaming of exploring, I do not think this storyline would have ultimately been as strong.
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