Robert Crumb
Recent articles about Robert Crumb
Getting into good trouble
Issue 108, Spring 2025
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
It is a mark of how far comics have come that Yale University Press should…
Crumb’s graphic sweepings
Issue 41, Autumn 2001
Crumb has been the comics’ deity for me since the early 1960s when I saw…
Political punch
Issue 41, Autumn 2001
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
R. Crumb’s portraits reveal a tender side to the self-confessed misogynist
Comics for damned intellectuals
Issue 8, Autumn 1992
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…