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The illustrator dredged the depths of his own subconscious—and tapped into something collectively screwy in America.
I don't have ongoing characters that repeat from strip to strip, except maybe myself, and it seems like a tradition that's well-rooted in 20th-century art of the artist as hero. There's actually ...
In Mr. Zwigoff’s film, an art critic and historian, Robert Hughes ... later, vintage blues and country music. Upon graduating from high school, Mr. Crumb moved to Cleveland and began working for the ...
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 ...
A Cartoonist’s Life” takes on the good, the bad, the ugly and the weird. Over punk rock vegetarian food, subject and writer ...
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 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: ...
In Dan Nadel’s brief foreword to his comprehensive and lucid biography of comics luminary Robert Crumb ... not to walk away from “Crumb” wondering what the artist’s trajectory might ...