sex fiend

“He’s either a doctor out there doing his job, or he’s a maniacal monster sex fiend out there looking for sex whenever he can,” the defense attorney said.

Crumb published his early work in humor magazines and underground papers and sold stapled, self-printed comics out of head shops, introducing iconic characters that would become countercultural totems: Mr. Natural, a godlike imp and con man; the sex fiend Snoid; Fritz the Cat, a lampooning of the shallow hipster, who became his most famous character.

Another idea, for a documentary project, would explore Knox’s relationship with her principal Italian prosecutor, Giuliano Mignini, a lifelong Perugian who during the trial portrayed Knox as a sex fiend looking to exact revenge on her roommate and who argued that she had to have been involved in the killing because only a woman would cover a body with a bedsheet.

In a letter to Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis, Ms. Salzman’s lawyers portrayed her as Mr. Raniere’s dupe, writing that she had been “fooled, controlled, humiliated, and ultimately led to engage in criminal conduct by an egotistical, self-important, sex fiend.”

Claire Bowden, writing in The Sunday Times, praised Bailey for documenting Roth‘s struggle “to be seen as a serious novelist not a sex fiend, fighting his ex-wives, critics and his failing body.”