Robert Dennis Crumb

R. Crumb’s cartoons plumb the grotesque corners of the American unconscious.

Dan Nadel on the formative awkward adolescence of an iconic American cartoonist.

Anthem for a forgotten cohort.

What did the creator of the Whole Earth Catalog stand for?

A sweeping new history traces the rise of characters caught in a Manichaean struggle between good and evil.

Comedy from Mad Magazine to The Simpsons.

Screwball comics wage a gleeful war on civilization and its discontents—armed mostly with water-pistols, stink bombs, and laughing gas.

How a cartoon gamine midwifed the graphic novel—and the modern conservative movement.