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

A Cartoonist’s Life” takes on the good, the bad, the ugly and the weird. Over punk rock vegetarian food, subject and writer ...

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

In his new biography of Robert Crumb, Dan Nadel writes that ... Which doesn’t mean “Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life,” is a hatchet job. Far from it: Nadel, a museum curator and comics expert ...

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

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 ...

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

Like Hwang’s previous novels, this book is a tender, spooky portrait of outcast friends and lovers. In the first story, d and ...

These books confront readers with the recent past and distant future, bring them to southeastern Africa and an alternative ...

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.