Charles Crumb

Charles Crumb was the eldest brother in the Crumb family. In the 1994 documentary Crumb, Charles Crumb openly admits that as a child he had a troubling, violent impulses and actually considered killing Robert in his sleep. He also discusses his crippling, lifelong obsession with the Disney film version of Treasure Island and his sexual fixation with the film’s then-underage star, Bobby Driscoll. In Crumb Family Comics, published after Charles Crumb’s death, some of his letters are printed in which he writes that his sexual attraction to underage boys played a large part in why he became a shut-in.