Comic Book News of The Week: The first biography of Robert Crumb and More!
What’s going on in the Comic Book World? Life can be pretty busy, so we highlight recent news and articles that may catch your interest in our fourth edition of Comic Book News.
This month sees the release of Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life, a biography by Dan Nadel, a curator and writer specializing in comics and art who “shares how this complicated artist survived childhood abuse, fame in his twenties, more fame, and came out the other side intact.”
If you are not familiar with Robert Crumb, here is a short introduction by publisher Scribner: “Robert Crumb is often credited with single-handedly transforming the comics medium into a place for adult expression, in the process pioneering the underground comic book industry, and transforming the vernacular language of 20th-century America into an instantly recognizable and popular aesthetic, as iconic as Walt Disney or Charles Schulz.”
Chris Vognar at the Los Angeles Times wrote about the book:
Generously illustrated with work from throughout Crumb’s career, “Crumb” is an artist biography that astutely connects the work to the life story without forcing or simplifying anything. It works as cultural history and criticism; you won’t find a sharper analysis of the underground comix movement. Nadel honors the complexity of his subject, even, perhaps particularly, when it gets ugly.
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