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Crumb

A Cartoonist’s Life
  • Dan Nadel
2025
Scribner

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Featured Excerpts

  • Robert Crumb holding up a cartoon book and pointing to it.
    Book Review

    Desperate Character: Rambunctious R. Crumb

    Rambunctious and often offensive, R. Crumb draws freely on pre-existing racial and gender stereotypes.
    by J. Hoberman via London Review of Books on November 14, 2025
  • Robert Crumb
    Book Review

    He’s Lewd, Problematic, and Profoundly Influential

    R. Crumb’s cartoons plumb the grotesque corners of the American unconscious.
    by Jeremy Lybarger via The New Republic on May 20, 2025
  • Cartoon drawing of a child hiding behind a man.
    Book Excerpt

    How Robert Crumb Channeled Mid-Century Teenage Angst Into Art

    Dan Nadel on the formative awkward adolescence of an iconic American cartoonist.
    by Dan Nadel via Literary Hub on April 15, 2025
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