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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 ...
The underground-comic artist visits the Whitney with his biographer, Dan Nadel, and considers some old friends: his own ...
Reared in Delaware by a World War II Marine vet prone to domestic violence and a mother lost to amphetamine addiction, Crumb ...
The following is an opinion column written by an Echo Press editorial staff member. It does not necessarily reflect the views ...
Mr. Nadel’s soon-to-be-published book, “Crumb; A Cartoonist’s Life,” is the first literary biography of the man born in 1943 as Robert Dennis Crumb. This isn’t the first time that his life and work ...
Pioneering counterculture cartoonist Robert Crumb finally gets his due in Crumb (Pantheon, Apr.), a new biography from the ...
Even if you don’t know his name, chances are you’re familiar with Robert Crumb’s cartoon art — that scritchy-scratchy, overly rendered linework adorned with masterful cross-hatching that ...
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 ...
In his new biography of Robert Crumb, Dan Nadel writes that ... and examine the racially and sexually charged aspects of his work.” Crumb, graphically honest in his work as a surrealistic ...