[We] must thank the gods for art, those of us who have been fortunate enough to stumble onto this means of venting our craziness, our meanness, our towering disgust.
After his success, Crumb sold a stack of his original sketchbooks in exchange for a chateau in the French countryside where he continues to live and work.
Now that’s a goal worthy of the bucket list.
And he was brilliantly, solidly, eloquently right! The chateau ain’t bad, either.