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 ...

But Dan Nadel is writing about another troubled, troubling, and quintessentially American figure, the cartoonist Robert Crumb ... Catharsis is, if not Mr. Crumb’s primary leitmotif, then an ...

Reared in Delaware by a World War II Marine vet prone to domestic violence and a mother lost to amphetamine addiction, Crumb ...

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