Cartoonist Robert Crumb on the Islamic Massacre of Cartoonists

I’ve enjoyed the work of Robert Crumb for many years, an appreciation that grew after I saw the masterful documentary “Crumb” in the 1990s. Turns out he was actually the most normal person in his family, who would have thought it? Crumb’s works feature amazing draftsmanship, fearless self-exploration, and especially in his earlier art, incredible visionary imagery.

In the article above Crumb, now a resident of France, comments on how some of his colleagues were butchered for daring to defy a growing threat to Western civilization’s traditions of free expression. Crumb is no hypocrite here; despite the half-joking disavowal in his drawing, he had the guts to produce something that literally could get him killed, all in the name of freedom.

After all, who is there to protect him? The elites that have seized control of our institutions have made it clear they have…