P-list Lawyer

[Keith Brecher]

At 10:05 AM 3/18/97 -0500, you wrote:
>We could wait for Ralph Bakshi to animate GR.....
>
>(run, duck & cover..)
>
>
>Ted Samsel....tejas at infi.net  *1997* Centennial of Bram Stoker's DRACULA
>         "Home of the brave, land of the free,
>          I don't want to be mistreated by no bourgoisie."
>AAFOUF# 0000003                           Huddie Ledbetter
>
>It's funny you mention an animated version of GR, since I've recently been
thinking the same thing. Except, I wouldn't choose Ralph Bakshi, but, were
he to make films, Robert Crumb. It seems to me that Crumb was either a
major influence on GR or the similarities between Crumb's comix and GR are
the result of that craazzy '60's zeitgeist. Think about all those dancing
tubes of toothpaste, appliances, and animals in certain Crumb comix, then
picture Webley's Busby Berkeley-like dance scene with the lab rats in GR.
There seems little doubt that TRP has some affection for R. Crumb since
he's mentioned in Vineland. And speaking of Crumb, another great writer and
acknowledged fan was PKD. And, not only that, Crumb seems to have returned
the favor by creating one of his best strips about PKD's weird religious
experiences featured in one of the later issues of Weirdo. Maybe Crumb will
do the same for TRP. Just imagine that: a Crumb inked graphic novel of GR.
Though, come to think of it, I'd rather not see it, but imagine it instead.