“Do You See Him as an Incel?”: One Biographer’s Journey Down the Robert Crumb Rabbit Hole

Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life

Hosted by: S.W. ConserProduced by: KBOOProgram:: Words and PicturesAir date: Thu, 04/17/2025 - 11:00am to 12:00pmMore Images: A legend of the underground comics scene is profiled in a long-awaited biography  Dan Nadel is an author and curator whose books include It’s Life As a I See It: Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940-1980; The Collected Hairy Who Publications; and the recently published Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life, which follows the career an…

“Do You See Him as an Incel?”: One Biographer’s Journey Down the Robert Crumb Rabbit Hole

Robert Crumb with Zap Comix no. 2, Berkeley, July 1968. Photograph by Leonard Schwab. Robert Crumb, the outrageous, hilarious cartoonist whose work defined the look of the counterculture (think Fritz the Cat and Keep on Truckin’) has held up a mirror to himself and all of us for over six decades, revealing the id and superego of the American consciousness. Now, he is the subject of an expansive biography by curator and writer Dan Nadel: Crumb: A…