- Brother-in-law of Dana Morgan (Robert Crumb's first wife; mother of Jesse) and later Aline Kominsky-Crumb (Crumb's second wife; mother of Sophie).
- During his adult life, he never left his family home, and rarely ventured outside, where he lived with his mother. At this point, his artwork exhibited repetitive and painstaking concentric lines, filling in otherwise normal, Crumbesque drawings, reflecting an obsession with filling every last centimeter of white space.
- Charles Crumb and his artwork received wide public attention, as a result of the success of the 1994 feature-length documentary film Crumb, in which Charles and some of his work are featured prominently.
- As Charles entered adulthood, he began showing signs of mental illness, due to what he himself described as his "homosexual pedophiliac tendencies". As a teenager, he had already developed a particular obsession for Bobby Driscoll, child star of the film Treasure Island, and much of his artwork focused on themes and characters from the film and novel.
- After Charles committed suicide, his mother threw out a great deal of his artwork as she thought "No one would be interested in it.".
- As a teenager, he had already developed a particular obsession for Bobby Driscoll, child star of the 1950 Disney film Treasure Island, and much of his artwork focused on themes and characters from the film and novel. Throughout the years, Charles remained constantly terrified that his sexual tendencies would be discovered by his mother, or by anyone.
- His artwork, including notebooks filled with tiny gestural marks that suggest handwriting, has been published and exhibited, sometimes in the context of outsider art.
- Charles often appears as a character in his younger brother Robert Crumb's comic stories and autobiographical writings; Robert credits Charles' childhood obsession with making comics as the foundation of Robert's own devotion to his art.
- In 1972, Charles was staying in a Philadelphia-area psychiatric hospital, where he was visited by Robert, who subsequently drew a story, "Fuzzy the Bunny in 'Nut Factory Blues,'" that was mostly made up of dialogue between the two brothers taken from Robert's visit.
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