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Importing elements of Disney cartoons and newspaper strips into his countercultural comics, Robert Crumb created a transgressive, influential style.

Lewd, Problematic, and Profoundly Influential R. Crumb’s cartoons plumb the grotesque corners of the American unconscious.

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Dan Nadel, author of the new book "Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life", joined us to share a few stories from his revealing look at Robert Crumb—one of the most profound and influential artists of the ...

Crumb, by Dan Nadel (Scribner). In this diligently researched biography, the graphic novel finds its forebear in the cartoonist Robert Crumb. The book chronicles Crumb’s aberrant life and career ...

Dan Nadel’s “Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life” takes on the good, the bad, the ugly and the weird. Over punk rock vegetarian food, subject and writer compared notes.

Funny Aminals was a one-off underground comic anthology created by Robert Crumb and featuring contributions from several emerging artists, including a 24-year-old Spiegelman.

Robert Mapplethorpe was partial to bulging muscles wrapped in leather. And then there is the legendary cartoonist R. Crumb—lover of solid legs, worshipper of meaty thighs, champion of the ample ...

The cartoonist Robert Crumb is described in a new biography as “misanthropic.” In his own work, he typically characterizes his personality as an unpleasant cocktail of rage, lust, and social ...

The story closes with the adult Crumb brazenly playing footsy with a coworker in the early 1980s. Robert’s storytelling is both filled with teenage lust and absolutely fixated on accuracy.