"In the spring of 1962, an 18-year-old Robert Crumb was beaned in the forehead by a solid glass ashtray. His mother, Bea, had hurled it at his father, Chuck, who ducked. Robert was bloodied and dazed, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In his new biography of Robert Crumb, Dan Nadel writes that his subject agreed to participate in the project under one condition: ...

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. In telling the ...

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: A Cartoonist ...

Installation view of R. Crumb: Tales of Paranoia at David Zwirner, Los Angeles (photo Tulsa Kinney/Hyperallergic) LOS ANGELES — R. Crumb has a new comic book! After a 23-year hiatus, Tales of Paranoia ...

I first encountered Robert Crumb at my local Blockbuster, in the mid-Nineties, when Crumb became available for rental. I wasn’t more than ten at the time, so I didn’t understand that the movie was a ...

Getting to know Crumb also meant delving into correspondences with his family, friends and loved ones — learning that he meant something different to them than he did to the rest of the world. “It ...

A recent Briefly Noted item on Dan Nadel’s new biography of Robert Crumb cites the cartoonist’s “racist caricatures” (April 28th). These certainly exist—the cartoon sequence titled “Angelfood McSpade, ...