The illustrator dredged the depths of his own subconscious—and tapped into something collectively screwy in America.

Diane DiMassa’s Hothead Paisan is full of unrestrained, devil-may-care attitude. This is an edition of the Books Briefing, ...

The underground-comic artist visits the Whitney with his biographer, Dan Nadel, and considers some old friends: his own ...

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

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

Author Dan Nadel's book takes a microscope to Robert Crumb, the idiosyncratic creator of Fritz the Cat and Mr. Natural.

Robert Crumb, the libidinous underground comix pioneer, had one condition before he agreed to participated in Dan Nadel's biography: that the author look closely at his compulsions.

In his book excerpt we meet the comics legend in his childhood, as his explores his obsession with cartooning, and a new ...

In Mr. Zwigoff’s film, an art critic and historian, Robert Hughes, waxes majestic about Mr. Crumb: “He’s the Brueghel of the last half of the twentieth-century … because he gives you that tremendous ...

Pioneering counterculture cartoonist Robert Crumb finally gets his due in Crumb (Pantheon, Apr.), a new biography from the ...