death_place death_date birth_place parents birth_date article_title name occupation
philadelphia february 1993 1942 philadelphia , pennsylvania charles and beatrice crumb 1942 charles crumb
 charles crumb artist
charles crumb

charles vincent crumb , jr. -lrb- 1942 - february 1993 -rrb- was an american artist and the brother of the cartoonist robert crumb .
charles often appears as a character in robert crumb 's comic stories and autobiographical writings ; robert credits charles ' childhood obsession with making comics as the foundation of robert 's own devotion to his art .
robert himself has been done several works adapted from things he and charles did as children , as well as telling stories about charles himself in robert 's own comics .
as charles entered adulthood he began showing signs of mental illness , due to what he himself described as his `` homosexual pedophiliac tendencies '' .
as a teenager he had already developed a particular obsession for bobby driscoll , child star of the film `` treasure island '' , and much of his artwork focused on themes and characters from the film and novel .
according to his own testimony , charles crumb never succumbed to his urges and remained determined not to .
throughout the years , he remained constantly terrified that his sexual tendencies could be discovered by his mother , or by anyone .
during his adult life , he never left his family home and rarely ventured outside of it , where he lived with his mother .
at this point his artwork exhibited repetitive and painstaking concentric lines filling in otherwise normal crumb-esque drawings , reflecting an obsession with filling every last centimeter of white space .
charles crumb and his artwork received wide public attention as a result of the success of the 1994 feature-length documentary film `` crumb , '' in which charles and some of his work are featured prominently .
his artwork , including notebooks filled with tiny gestural marks that suggest handwriting , has been published and exhibited , sometimes in the context of outsider art .
after charles committed suicide , his mother threw out a great deal of his artwork as she thought `` no one would be interested in it . ''
in the film `` crumb '' , r. crumb describes how charles would often react to things by saying `` how perfectly goddamned delightful it all is , to be sure . ''
it was a catch-phrase of his .
robert remarks , `` whenever he said that , it always took the wind out of my sails . ''
charles crumb committed suicide in february 1993 .
he reportedly died as a result of an overdose .
the narrator of the film , david lynch himself said that he thought to cast charles in one of his movies .
`` crumb '' was dedicated to his memory .
