Robert Crumb: paranoid or careful ?

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Crumb cancelled visit fearing assassination

THE celebrated cartoonist Robert Crumb says he cancelled his headlining appearance at Sydney's Graphic festival next weekend over fears he might have been attacked or, like John Lennon, even killed.

Breaking his silence over his withdrawal from the Sydney Opera House festival, the American comic-book giant said he had been alarmed by the ''hateful Machiavellian tactics'' behind a recent newspaper article labelling him a sex pervert and, he believed, implying he was a child abuser. His wife, Aline, feared for his safety in Australia and told him: ''That's it, you're not going.'' Read more at www.smh.com.au

 

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