A Cartoonist’s Life” takes on the good, the bad, the ugly and the weird. Over punk rock vegetarian food, subject and writer ...

In his book excerpt we meet the comics legend in his childhood, as his explores his obsession with cartooning, and a new ...

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

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

These books confront readers with the recent past and distant future, bring them to southeastern Africa and an alternative ...

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 ...

A Cartoonist’s Life,” Dan Nadel tries to tell the story of the “Mr. Natural” creator without sanding down the rough edges.

Premieres Monday, April 21, 2025 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Discover the career of cartoonist Art Spiegelman and the ...