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Reared in Delaware by a World War II Marine vet prone to domestic violence and a mother lost to amphetamine addiction, Crumb ...
The underground-comic artist visits the Whitney with his biographer, Dan Nadel, and considers some old friends: his own ...
Author Dan Nadel's book takes a microscope to Robert Crumb, the idiosyncratic creator of Fritz the Cat and Mr. Natural.
The illustrator dredged the depths of his own subconscious—and tapped into something collectively screwy in America.
Robert Crumb, the libidinous underground comix pioneer, had one condition before he agreed to participated in Dan Nadel's ...
In his book excerpt we meet the comics legend in his childhood, as his explores his obsession with cartooning, and a new ...
Mr. Nadel’s soon-to-be-published book, “Crumb; A Cartoonist’s Life,” is the first ... In Mr. Zwigoff’s film, an art critic and historian, Robert Hughes, waxes majestic about Mr. Crumb: “He’s the ...
A Cartoonist’s Life,” Dan Nadel tries to tell the story of the “Mr. Natural” creator without sanding down the rough edges.
Pioneering counterculture cartoonist Robert Crumb finally gets his due in Crumb (Pantheon, Apr.), a new biography from the ...