The original “Keep on Truckin’” panel drawn by Robert Crumb circa 1971 depicted an unnamed character truckin’ along with the dialogue balloons “YEAH!!” and “Hup hup!” So he’s on foot and either he’s walking really fast with long strides or taking long lazy exaggerated strides, meaning what? Keep on moving your butt right along? Keep on doing whatever the hell it is you do? Keep on going? Or is there some meaning to the term “trucking” that isn’t spelled out in the cartoon that you’d have to know to get the cartoon? Does it have something to do with marijuana, perhaps? I don’t get it, I just don’t get what is so damn groovy about this picture that now everyone had it on their pins and posters of it on their walls and I hate it when everyone seems to be in on something that they are too smugly hip to to bother to explain it to me.ĭesignated Optional Signature at Bottom of Post There’s no truck in the picture and the guy doesn’t look like a truck driver. Hey SDMB’ers! Can someone explain to me the “Keep on Truckin’” cartoon / t-shirts / bumper stickers / etc? I don’t get it. If there had been an “online” and a SDMB available to me three decades ago, I would have posted: Finally, at the bottom right corner of the page, he mumbles “I just can’t seem to stop!” I’d better stop right here.) He looks up, looks down, reads the paper, looks at his watch. I have never seen THE MAN WHO COULDN"T STOP, but I love the premise (Under the lurid title is a page full of pictures of a man sitting on the can. WARNING, TANGENT AHEAD: For those of you who can remember, what was your favorite Crumb comic. ![]() Natural’s laid back travels through life. Natural was a regular character in Crumb’s comics and was usually paired up (IIRC) with Flakey Foont, the hung-up sideman in Mr. Natural telling Flakey Foont that “the cards ain’t worth a dime if you don’t lay them down.” I was always under the impression that the Doo-Dah man was none other than Mr. The pic (link) usually had “Keep On Truckin’” underneath. The “truckin’” guy ( ) is a drawing by Robert Crumb.
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