"His breakthrough work in 1967 even seemed to echo “underground” comic-book stylists of the day, notably R. Crumb, though evidently he was unaware of them at first. (The resemblance points to shared influences. Both Guston and Crumb took inspiration from such classic comic strips as George Herriman’s “Krazy Kat.”) I loved rock-and-roll Dylan, but I clung to a faith in high-toned abstraction as the pinnacle of contemporary art. Guston’s 1970 show—in retrospect, modern painting’s Appomattox—left me feeling betrayed." from here
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