But if you step outside the approved cultural appreciation of women, Crumb can be viewed as one of the bravest, most vocal fans of the strong women. Crumb has made no secret, for those willing to see it, of his fascination for Amazons. In a story in Zap number 9, little Bobby Crumb feels the first glimmerings of sexuality. Crumb starts out humping boots and ends up in a wild flying fantasia. It's only a short leap from this emblem of dominance to the big legged Amazons in his strips, rooted, he says in Crumb, from the TV show Sheena Queen of the Jungle he saw as a kid.
Most Crumb women are big and bossy.
They are alternatives to the dominant female role that Crumb sees women playing in the culture. Guys are Big Booby Bastards, period. One would have thought that the counter culture that coincided with the emergence of Crumb would have promoted this artist as an alternative to conventional views of sexuality. Instead, he has been steadily attacked, and it turns out that feminists would prefer to cleanse Crumb of the perverse element of his works. Where else did Crumb's sexuality, sense of justice and observational skills originate but in that unyielding nightmare, the American family.