Robert Crumb

Recent articles about Robert Crumb

Getting into good trouble

Issue 108, Spring 2025

Review

While we doomscroll, Spiegelman is still the poster boy for consequential drawing, and he reminds us that enduring printed matter still matters …

Comic Detours And Digressions

Issue 63, Spring 2007

Review

It is a mark of how far comics have come that Yale University Press should…

Crumb’s graphic sweepings

Issue 41, Autumn 2001

Review

Crumb has been the comics’ deity for me since the early 1960s when I saw…

Political punch

Issue 41, Autumn 2001

Review

The refreshing thing about David Huxley’s heavily illustrated history of British underground comics is the…

In my honey’s loving arms

Issue 48, Summer 2003

Feature

R. Crumb’s portraits reveal a tender side to the self-confessed misogynist

Comics for damned intellectuals

Issue 8, Autumn 1992

Feature

It is ten years since Françoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman impetuously founded Raw Books and Graphics. Since then, Raw, the couple’s alternative comic strip magazine, has provided an outlet for talented unknowns, given new significance to the term ‘graphic novel’, almost single-handedly reinvented one of America’s most popular indigenous artforms – all on a shoestring budget.

Recent blog posts about Robert Crumb

Books received #37

17 April 2019
Graphic design, Illustration

Angie Lewin’s pebbles; Mark Andresen’s dogs; Lukas Novotny’s Modern London; R. Crumb’s dreams; the scrapbooks of Eric Ravilious
Here is a selection of illustration-related titles that caught our attention in recent weeks. Spreads…