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.

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

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

Robert Crumb, the libidinous underground comix pioneer, had one condition before he agreed to participated in Dan Nadel's biography: that the author look closely at his compulsions.

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

Diane DiMassa’s Hothead Paisan is full of unrestrained, devil-may-care attitude. This is an edition of the Books Briefing, ...

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 ...

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.

In Molly Bernstein and Philip Dolin's new documentary Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse, Robert Crumb is the man who ... the achievement up with another book explaining it (MetaMaus) and who ...