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

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

He sang arias on the streets of San Francisco, performed on Broadway and collaborated on a musical about Al Jolson, which he ...

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

Via the artist R. Crumb Dismiss that as a biographer’s hyperbole ... At worst, they’ve been deemed misogynistic, racist, and antisemitic. A signature character like Angelfood McSpade begs the issue: ...

In Dan Nadel’s brief foreword to his comprehensive and lucid biography of comics luminary Robert ... work that Crumb would come to be best known for: his “Keep on Truckin’” characters ...

These books confront readers with the recent past and distant future, bring them to southeastern Africa and an alternative ...