In Dan Nadel’s brief foreword to his comprehensive and lucid biography of comics luminary Robert Crumb — popularly known as R. Crumb — the author describes a single condition exacted by his ...

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 ...

Robert Crumb is to comics what Louis Armsrong is to jazz, a revolutionary who pulled a maligned and misunderstood art form out of the shadows. In the forward to his new biography, “Crumb: ...

And then there is the legendary cartoonist R. Crumb—lover of solid legs, worshipper of meaty thighs, champion of the ample backside. To truly know his art is to know what turns him on.

The cartoonist Robert Crumb is described in a new biography as “misanthropic.” In his own work, he typically characterizes his personality as an unpleasant cocktail of rage, lust, and social ...

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 ...

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 ...

Overall World Cup skiing champion Federica Brignone was discharged from the hospital on Tuesday, five days after breaking multiple bones in her left leg in a giant slalom crash and undergoing surgery.

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 ...