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 ...

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

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.

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

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

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 ...