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 ...

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 ...

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.

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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 ...

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 ...