Crumb - A Cartoonist's Life

About the author

Dan Nadel is a writer and curator. His previous books include, It’s Life as 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 at 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.

Product details

• Authors: Nadel Dan
• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 07.05.2026
• EAN: 9781982144012
• ISBN: 978-1-9821-4401-2
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 213 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 362 g
• Illustrations: 44 b-w images throughout; 2x8-page 4-c inserts; 4C printed enpapers
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Biography: arts & entertainment, Cartoons & comic strips, Biography: arts and entertainment, Comic book and cartoon artwork