u/According-Process92

R. Crumb is unique as an artist and his pathology (or corpus, whatever), specifically his depictions of women, represents a very specific type of sexuality: that of a teenage boy. Maybe I am just stating the obvious here but when a teen boy starts "noticing" the opposite sex, there is this weird disconnect which arises and which doesn't resolve itself until the hormones have settled after puberty.
Every guy probably knows what I'm talking about. There's almost like this "eureka" moment as a teen when all of a sudden you're surrounded by these stylish, developed women in their 20s and 30s, arguably in their sexual prime, and you're 13 years old sat there with a hard-on. Even though you wanna stick it in 'em, you can't nor do you really know how. It's daunting. Hitherto uncharted territory. You naturally want to assume an "active" role as a male, but these ladies are adults and you're just a kid. You know it and they know it.
A precarious position of deference is assumed by the teenage boy towards the woman. It can become worshipful. Crumb depicts this dynamic so well, implicitly and explicitly. Every guy remembers "the hot teacher(s)" in school. Every guy remembers "the hot mom(s)" as a kid. Every guy remembers "the hot girl(s)" in class that you never had the courage to talk to. What's more, as teens playing with our nascent sexuality, we formed unending fantasies about all the aforementioned. I know I did. I know other boys did. Crumb clearly did lol.

FURTHER: The fact that his art focuses so much on the female butt & boobs, to the point of lusty exaggeration, totally validates my theory. When you're a teenage boy at the start of puberty, T&A basically becomes your entire world. It's not until the cessation of the hormonal bombardment does a guy start to truly appreciate the nuance of small aristocratic boobs or a well-toned butt, or slender legs, or tummy etc. I'm not saying that teen boys aren't also attracted to all of the above, but a real appreciation for the female form has not developed yet. In my honest and humble opinion, Crumb never grew out of this "teenage" phase and the world of underground art is all the better for it. When you look at his art, his women, you are seeing through the wide eyes of a teenage boy; every straight man has been where he has been, albeit briefly and probably many years ago for most of us.

Just my two cents.

"A huge and powerful warrior-king who arrogantly defies his highest god, Capaneus is the archetypal blasphemer. It is striking that Dante selects a figure from pagan mythology to represent one of the few specifically religious sins punished in Hell. Dante describes him as proud and disdainful, apparently unaffected by the flames."