"Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life" Author Dan Nadel

It's the first biography written with the cooperation of the artist himself! Dan Nadel, author of the new book "Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life", joined us to share a few stories from his revealing look at Robert Crumb—one of the most profound and influential artists of the 20th century whose work inspired generations of writers and artists. 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. "Crumb" spans the pressures of 1950s suburban America and Crumb’s highly dysfunctional early family life; the history of comics and graphic satire; 20th century popular music; the world of the counterculture; the birth of underground comic books in 1960s San Francisco with Crumb’s Zap Comix; the economic challenges and dissolution of the hippie dream; and the path Robert Crumb blazed through it all.