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

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 ...

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.

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

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.

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 ...

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Dan Nadel, author of the new book "Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life", joined us to share a few stories from his revealing look at Robert Crumb—one of the most profound and influential artists of the ...