The Comedy of Man Begins Like This: On and with Terry Zwigoff

The aspiring artist seeking an inspiring avatar in the corpus of Terry Zwigoff has set themselves up, to put it mildly, for a fair bit of consternation. Its not that, to invoke his Daniel Clowes adaptation Art School Confidential (2006), the narcotic moment of creative bliss is totally impossible-Crumb (1994), his documentary about the eponymous underground cartoonist, is littered with such moments rendered with the commonplace flick of a pen, even if bliss is comparatively rare-only Zwigoffs ca...