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

Zwigoff’s film, an art critic and historian, Robert Hughes, waxes majestic about Mr ... masked as cathartic art”? Catharsis is, if not Mr. Crumb’s primary leitmotif, then an ineradicable component of ...

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 ...

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: ...

Dan Nadel’s knowledge of, and immersion in, the world of comics is staggering—and very much present in Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life (Scribner), Nadel’s new biography of Robert Crumb.