News

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.
Monsters inhabit the visual world created by R. (he never signed his work “Robert”) Crumb, the subject of Terry Zwigoff’s superb documentary “Crumb.” It’s about the misanthrope whose ...
When the acid-fueled, sex-obsessed, painfully confessional comics of R. Crumb first appeared in the 1960s, nobody would have predicted they'd end up in a museum someday. Surprise!
A Troubled and Troubling Artist, Cartoonist Robert Crumb Is Subject of a Literary Biography. This isn’t the first time that his life and work have been the subject of sustained attention: Terry ...
“R. Crumb’s Underground” at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia is a perversely pummeling retrospective of the graphic cartoonist’s gods, demons and enemies. I… ...
With his slender face and little slick mustache, Robert Crumb looks a bit like a seedy Walt Disney. With his deadpan looks and omnipresent gray fedora, he also resembles William Burroughs. Terry Zw… ...
THIS IS NOT WHAT TERry Zwigoff had in mind when he decided to make "Crumb," a film about legendary underground comic artist Robert Crumb: the critical comments about America's most dysfunctional ...
Robert Crumb, the much-loved counterculture cartoonist who created Mr. Natural and a host of other memorable characters, has been published in places high and low all over the world. But he had nev… ...
Natural, Devil Girl, Angelfood McSpade, Fritz the Cat, Crumb’s loathsome self-depiction — more than 150 familiar and rare images are on display from Robert Crumb’s four-decade career of ...
Peter Poplaski lives in the same medieval village in the south of France as Robert Crumb, and when Crumb began work on “The Book of Genesis” (his unabridged illustrated version of the first ...
News about Robert Crumb, ... In “Love That Bunch,” a retrospective of Aline Kominsky-Crumb’s work, we see a more content woman emerge. Though she is still brutally honest.