Saturday 1 December 2012

“WHEN THE GODDAMN JEWS TAKE OVER AMERICA”: ROBERT CRUMB CARTOON STRIP

 


Posted on by Montecristo

 
Robert Crumb, cult cartoonist

 

The cartoon strip published below ~ “When the Goddamn Jews take over America” ~ is not, as its title might suggest, anti-Semitic in intent. On the contrary, it is a highly sophisticated satirical spoof by Judeophile cartoonist Robert Crumb that brings together a number of anti-Semitic “canards” and “stereotypes”.

 

Far from being anti-Semitic, the cartoon strip is therefore an attempt to poke fun at the anti-Semites and their ridiculous “conspiracy theories” about Jews.

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It must be remembered that Robert Crumb’s second wife, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, was Jewish. Born into a middle-class Jewish family in New York, the Goldsmiths, Aline was a highly talented underground comics artist in her own right. She was known to collaborate with her husband Robert on many of his assignments. So it is more than likely that Aline collaborated with Crumb on this particular cartoon strip with its tongue-in-cheek anti-Semitism.

 

When Aline met Robert in 1978, it was love at first sight. She was attracted to the bearded humorist because she thought he was Jewish. This is what she has to say:

 

“I had read Robert’s work before I met him and I thought he was Jewish because he was so whiny. He’s such a kvetch. When I saw Robert’s comics, I thought: here is Jewish humor at its best. When my grandparents met him, they thought he was a rabbinical student. When we finally told them the truth, they were really disappointed. My grandmother tried to get him to convert [to Judaism] for years. Robert seems to be somewhat of a Jewophile because I’m his second Jewish wife. (See here) 

 

Cartoonist Robert Crumb and his Jewish wife, Aline Kominsky-Crumb

 

If Crumb’s humor is “Jewish humor at its best”, this does not say much for Jewish humor ~ however anarchic and irreverent Jewish humor is meant to be. Crumb’s work has elicted harsh comment from many critics. It has been denounced as racist, anti-feminist, and sexually perverted.

 

Crumb’s contributions, for example, appeared in Nasty Tales, a 1970s British publication that faced obscenity charges at the Old Bailey courthouse in London in 1972. Though the publishers were acquitted on that occasion, the mud stuck to Crumb ~ and his reputation as an unwholesome influence with sex on the brain has persisted.

 

R. Crumb’s Sex Obsessions, a collection of the cartoonist’s most explicit sex-oriented drawings and comic strips, was released from TASCHEN in November 2007. This may have boosted Crumb’s reputation among pornophiles, but it diminished his appeal elsewhere 

 

In August 2001, on Crumb being invited to attend a graphics artist festival in Sydney, Australia, an Australian tabloid labeled him a “self-confessed sex pervert”. The hostile headline asked ~ Cult genius or filthy weirdo

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Is this filth even remotely amusing to anyone?  

As a result of this “unjustified” abuse, Crumb had second thoughts about visiting the rude antipodean Crumbophobes and decided to cancel his trip to Australia in a fit of pique. 

 

Today, Crumb and his Jewish wife Aline reside in a small village near Sauve in the South of France, where they are often visited by their family.

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Soon after completing this cartoon depicting the everyday life of a typical American family,  Crumb decided to consecrate his genius to illustrating  the Book of Genesis.
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Partly because of his Jewish connections and his distinctly Jewish humor ~ possibly the result of heavy collaboration with his Jewish wife ~ Crumb’s reputation as a cult figure is guaranteed. He received the world’s ultimate accolade by recognition and publication in the Thanksgiving edition (2004) of  The New Yorker, a magazine (as we know) under full Jewish ownership, like the bulk of America’s mass media.

You will note that the above statement is itself an anti-Semitic “canard”, i.e., an allegedly false belief offensive to Jews ~ but one that happens, nevertheless, to be true!

The mass-media-under-Jewish-ownership “canard”, ironically, is utilized by Crumb himself in Frame 3 of the cartoon strip below: “AND THESE YIDS HAVE SECURED TOTALLY THEIR GREASY HANDS OWNERSHIP OF THE MOST POWERFUL FORCE OF MIND CONTROL IN THE MODERN WORLD ~ THE MASS MEDIA!”

Knowing all this, it’s amazing to think that so many otherwise intelligent people should regard the cartoon strip below as “anti-Semitic” when it is in fact almost the reverse: a satirical spoof by a philosemite and his Jewish wife.  
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2 comments:

  1. Crumb is a native of my city and I have viewed and followed his work for long time...I have always found the obsession with sex to be a bit boring, but I did enjoy his 'When Jews Take Over...' as well as his 'When Niggers Take Over...' because they contain a lot of truth...Crumb is what, an atheist, so if this be true, he judges himself.

    The Jewish wife is not necessarily bad, and has probably given him a career 'credibility'...But that is just in terms of this world.

    In terms of the afterlife, he has a few problems.

    He is a rather extreme product of my generation, of the 60s, and I appreciate the dark humor, but don't envy him in any way.

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  2. Here's a joke for you...
    WHY DOES PAUL WOLFOWITZ LOOK LIKE DRACULA?
    BECAUSE HE IS A BLOOD SUCKING JEW!
    I emailed Chumpsky and told him to change the name of his book to THE PRIVILEGED JEW, THE RESTLESS MANY and put noted racist, sexist slumlord Billionaire Donald Sterling's picture on the cover but he never wrote me back. Sterling, winner of the KIKE OF THE YEAR AWARD, made $1.5 billion dollars when he was forced to sell his basketball team worth $500 million for $2 billion because he was a confirmed racist who was fined $1,24 million for housing discrimination as well as other unknown amounts for sexual harrassmeht... And certainly fits the bill for privileged Jew but so does another KIKE OF THE YEAR AWARD winner, Elliott Abrams who was convicted of lying to congress for Iran Contra but ended up working at the NSA for 9/11... And then there is unabashed war profiteer Sen Dianne Feinstein whose work as Senate Intelligence Chairwoman did absolutely nothing to stop 9/11 but did everything to allow her to make a shitload of money off the Iran Iraq war as well as Nazi collaborator liberal billionaire Jew Dick Soros, who bought Halliburton just when the previously mentioned war against the enemies of Israel made Halliburton very profitable... So many to choose from... Trump's daughter, or any of his kids spouses? No wonder Chumpsky hasn't written back... What with 48% of America's billionaires being Jews, how could you put just one on the cover? I only hope the Crumb releases HOW THE GODDAMN JEWS USED THE GODDAMN CHRISTIANS TO CORNER THE MARKET ON THE GODDAMN SAVINGS AND LOAN INDUSTRY so that people will believe me when I point out that the Torah commands Jews to used money lending to possess people's land wherever they go and that Christians are forbidden to collect interest... Jacob Schiff?

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