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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 ...
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 ...
New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft was asked about stepping down from his position due to age. However, the 83-year-old quickly swatted down the notion of retirement. “First of all, I think I’m ...
Robert Downey Jr. entered the world of cinema at the age of five by appearing in his father and influential independent filmmaker Robert Downey Sr.’s 1970 film ‘Pound.’ Since then, Robert’s career as ...
In preparation, according to the Conviction Review Unit report, prosecutors Susan Crumb and Hilary Caligiuri learned that Dale had been “playacting for a reality TV crew” and the defense might ...
Passed away peacefully at Sault Area Hospital on Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at the age of 88. Predeceased by his loving wife Joan. He will be missed by his son Gordon (Bev Halliday), grandchildren ...
That was the essence of Robert Waterman McChesney. He was a globally respected communications scholar who was wholly welcome in the halls of academia, yet he was never satisfied working within an ...