Robert Crumb born in Philadelphia 1943 (73 year), also called R. Crumb, has made 1992: short history of America, which is a colorful short cartoon about America throughout the past years. The pictures remind me of a song called "Don´t know what you got, till it´s gone” because, in the comic strip the wonderful nature is destroyed, and eventually the people who lived there have planted trees which I think is a sign that when we destroyed nature, we realized what we had lost, and regretted it. Industry is a big success for the world, but at the end, people will long for the past.
“Don´t know what you got till it´s gone
Don´t know what it is I did so wrong
Now I know what I got
It´s just this song
And it ain´t easy to get back
Takes so long”. …show more content…
Before, there was technology; the world was a much better place.
“It ain´t easy to get back” because we have destroyed the world as much as we have, and until we realize what we have done, it will be hard to get everything back, but Robert tells us in the last picture, that it is possible. It´s only a matter of faith
Many people don´t think until it is too late, but some don´t think at all. “Don´t know what it is I did wrong” Almost every person on this planet is helping to destroy nature, without knowing it, and I know I´m guilty. I´m not saying we are monsters, but how come we managed to destroy this much, in only a few years. I´m afraid what the future will look like. Probably not close to what it is now.
Robert Crumb, who has made the comic, has imagined the future and what nature will look like in some years. For example, he has chosen to draw flying cars in an image.
Several people believe in the same future Robert thinks is possible, but he has thought further ahead and made a picture more to the