Crumb's comics were staples of 1960s counterculture. He's now the subject of a new biography. Crumb spoke to Fresh Air in 2005, and again, with his wife, fellow comic Aline Kominsky Crumb, in 2007 ...

In Dan Nadel’s brief foreword to his comprehensive and lucid biography of comics luminary Robert Crumb — popularly known as R. Crumb — the author describes a single condition exacted by his ...

Robert Mapplethorpe ... be a faithful illustration of the entire Book of Genesis, the decadent Mr. Natural replaced by the moral force of the Old Testament God? Aline Kominsky-Crumb, his partner ...

The cartoonist Robert Crumb is described in a new biography as “misanthropic.” In his own work, he typically characterizes his personality as an unpleasant cocktail of rage, lust, and social ...

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 ...

But Dan Nadel is writing about another troubled, troubling, and quintessentially American figure, the cartoonist Robert ... did illustrations for Topps bubble gum cards, and placed cartoons in a men’s ...

In his new biography of Robert Crumb, Dan Nadel writes that his subject agreed to participate in the project under one condition: “that I be honest about his faults, look closely at his ...

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: ...

"You know, your stuff is good, kid,” Charles Bukowski told the younger Robert ... illustrations show kids fighting in a front yard and playing pinball with cigarettes and mugs of root beer ...

NS: It seems like some of your noted characters had some musical taste. I mean Mr. Natural, he seems to always be whistling as I recall. RC: Well, I even did some strips where I have him singing ...