Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life by Dan Nadel
(Scribner)
April 15, 2025
ROBERT CRUMB began his six-decade-long career by illustrating greeting cards and proceeded to raunchy characters like Mr. Natural and Fritz the Cat — and, among his later works, an illustrated version of The Book of Genesis (although its explicit portrayals of the likes of Adam and Eve weren’t necessarily as subversive as most anticipated). The underground comics pioneer eventually settled down in the south of France with his wife and collaborator Aline Kominsky-Crumb. This is the stuff that big biographies are made of. Marc Weisblott
