I encountered Robert Crumb’s work at the age of 8 or 9 ... With him was the author and curator Dan Nadel, who has written “Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life,” a superb biography of an artist ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

but also to understanding any cartoonist’s work. It's just not useful. Late in the biography, you bring up the fact that Robert Crumb is—the polite phrase might be “a vaccine skeptic.” ...

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 ...

In Dan Nadel’s brief foreword to his comprehensive and lucid biography of comics luminary Robert Crumb ... for access to many details of Crumb’s life and work, Nadel was charged with ...