R. Crumb

“Illustration has a bad name in modern culture because for decades artists who were ‘mere illustrators’ were considered inferior to fine artists. Being an illustrator was looked down upon. It meant you were not really a creative person, you just had the technical skills that you were lending to someone else's ideas. It’s all bullshit though—the fine-art world, the myth of the creative genius artist. I made the drawings nice, and the people who like that kind of thing, the aesthetics, are impressed, but the most significant thing is actually illustrating everything that’s in there. That’s the most significant contribution I made. It brings everything out. Comic books are good for that. Many of the educational experiences I’ve had about important things, I got from comic books.” - R. Crumb