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

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

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

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: ...

A Cartoonist’s Life” takes on the good, the bad, the ugly and the weird. Over punk rock vegetarian food, subject and writer ...

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

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: ...

Diane DiMassa’s Hothead Paisan is full of unrestrained, devil-may-care attitude. This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here.

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

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 ...