Robert Crumb, the libidinous underground comix pioneer, had one condition before he agreed to participated in Dan Nadel's ...

The underground-comic artist visits the Whitney with his biographer, Dan Nadel, and considers some old friends: his own psychedelic skulls, placemat sketches, and muscly women.

Reared in Delaware by a World War II Marine vet prone to domestic violence and a mother lost to amphetamine addiction, Crumb and his brother Charles were beaten for being day-dreaming geeky aesthetes ...

I encountered Robert Crumb’s work at the age of 8 or 9, when his comics could be found — lurking and sweating — in the “Counterculture” section of my local used-book store in San Francisco.

But Dan Nadel is writing about another troubled, troubling, and quintessentially American figure, the cartoonist Robert Crumb. Mr. Nadel’s soon-to-be-published book, “Crumb; A Cartoonist’s Life,” is ...

In Dan Nadel’s brief foreword to his comprehensive and lucid biography of comics luminary Robert Crumb — popularly known as R. Crumb — the author describes a single condition exacted by his ...

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Like Hwang’s previous novels, this book is a tender, spooky portrait of outcast friends and lovers. In the first story, d and ...

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 ...