He refined his underground art style by drawing inspiration from older works, such as those of 16th century Flemish artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder.

"[3] Unsatisfied with the transformation the United States had undergone from the counterculture of the 1960s to the culture of the 1980s, the Crumb family left California two years after the publication of "Point the Finger" and moved to a village in Southern France.

[8] Crumb addresses the reader to explain that he is "going to point that merciless finger at one of the more visible of the big-time predators who feed on this society..one of the most evil men alive...real estate tycoon Donald Trump".

Crumb loses to Trump, as the then 42-year-old real estate developer, uses his wiles and charisma to attract the two women into his orbit and invites them to a party at Mar-a-Lago.

Crumb suddenly realizes that Trump is the living, modern-day embodiment of Trimalchio, a character from the Roman work of fiction Satyricon by Petronius (c. AD 27 – 66).

But just as the story has finished, Stan-the-Man Shnooter (a metafictional character parody of comic book editors Stan Lee and Jim Shooter) appears, encouraging Crumb to change the ending.

Works of this type, along with Crumb's "Point the Finger", include books like the satirical horror novel American Psycho (1991) by Bret Easton Ellis, The Submission (2011) by Amy Waldman, and Bleeding Edge (2013) by Thomas Pynchon.

Hock finds this panel reminiscent of Trump's involvement that same year with the Central Park Five, where he took out a newspaper ad that said "Bring Back the Death Penalty.

"Crumb projects himself as a countercultural, outsider hero who does not conform to traditional standards of masculinity," writes Worden, but this image is an illusion.

Over the years, "Point the Finger" was reprinted and published at least seven times: in Spain (1990), Sweden (1991), the Netherlands (1992), the United Kingdom (1994), in the U.S. (1995, 2014), and in Germany (2019).

This image featured the face of an overweight, ill-natured man embedded within its borders, which was illustrated with a version of the United States flag set against a mint-colored background.