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The first biography of Robert Crumb, “a monolithic presence who rewrote the rules of what comics are” (Art Spiegelman) and whose work shaped American culture and politics in the 20th century.
About the author
Dan Nadel is a writer and curator. His previous books include,
It’s Life as a I See It: Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940–1980;
Peter Saul: Professional Artist Correspondence, 1945–1976; and
Art Out of Time: Unknown Comic Visionaries, 1900–1969. Nadel has curated exhibitions for galleries and museums internationally including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, UC Davis, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He is the founder of PictureBox, a publishing and packaging company that produced over one hundred books, objects, and zines from 2000 to 2014, including the Grammy Award–winning design for Wilco’s 2004 album
A Ghost Is Born. Dan is the curator-at-large for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his family.
