But Dan Nadel is writing about another troubled, troubling, and quintessentially American figure, the cartoonist Robert Crumb. Mr. Nadel’s soon-to ... meditations seen in the pages of “Weirdo,” or the ...

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

In his new biography of Robert Crumb, Dan Nadel writes that his subject agreed to participate in the project under one condition: “that I be honest about his faults, look closely at his ...

Even if you don’t know his name, chances are you’re familiar with Robert Crumb’s cartoon art — that scritchy-scratchy, overly rendered linework adorned with masterful cross-hatching that ...

Robert Crumb was certainly in that mature-comics vanguard, but for all that, his childhood did much to mould him as an artist and is frequently detailed in his work. In this excerpt 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.

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

Robert Crumb is to comics what Louis Armsrong is to jazz, a revolutionary who pulled a maligned and misunderstood art form out of the shadows. In the forward to his new biography, “Crumb: ...

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 ...