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 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 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: ...

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 ...

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.