These books confront readers with the recent past and distant future, bring them to southeastern Africa and an alternative Japan, and bedeck their pages with subversive cartoons and lush landscapes.

The illustrator dredged the depths of his own subconscious—and tapped into something collectively screwy in America.

The underground-comic artist visits the Whitney with his biographer, Dan Nadel, and considers some old friends: his own ...

Art Spiegelman has done more to make Americans think of comic art as actual art than any other creator. And he did it with cartoon mice. But the characters of “Maus,” Spiegelman’s Pulitzer ...

I first encountered Robert Crumb at my local Blockbuster ... de la boue of one who touches himself before the Venus of Willendorf. Nadel’s book floats Crumb on the rapids of his times: the Human Be-In ...

Robert Crumb, the libidinous underground comix pioneer, had one condition before he agreed to participated in Dan Nadel's ...

Reared in Delaware by a World War II Marine vet prone to domestic violence and a mother lost to amphetamine addiction, Crumb ...

Pioneering counterculture cartoonist Robert Crumb finally gets his due in Crumb (Pantheon, Apr.), a new biography from the ...

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The magic of great entertainment partly comes down to its ability to cast a spell, to pull you into its unique universe and let you leave your own world behind.

Do they succeed? Apr 9, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Sarah Chihaya In The Life of Herod the Great, we get a novel full of intrigue, betrayal, and revolution. Apr 9, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Edna ...

It was early in 1989 when I decided to head down to the South Coast, taking the Princes Highway from Sydney to Shoalhaven, to visit the painter Gary Willis, who at the time was living in the Singleman ...