Crumb

This seemingly placid doc on the life and career of cult comic book artist Robert Crumb, who debunked superhero traditions with satire and psychedelic absurdity, is loaded with despair.

Crumb himself is entirely forthcoming on camera, uninhibited, honest.

Director Terry Zwigoff, an old friend and colleague, links the hilariously rendered and distinctly peculiar obsessions of Crumb's graphic work to the artist's fantastically dysfunctional family.

...a queasily intimate, revealing exploration of the creative process and prickly personality of an artist whose penchant for self-effacement shoots well past self-deprecation on its way to self-laceration.