Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life
Nadel’s gripping and essential book makes good on this claim; his biography is the story of how one highly flawed and preternaturally gifted man augured a revolution in comic book storytelling with his discomfiting, sexually frank, intensely personal oeuvre ... Moving.
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You may want to dismiss Crumb as a morsel of some strange loaf, fallen to the ground to be swept away. But today he is shown by David Zwirner, among the bluest of the blue-chip galleries, and his pieces command six figures. The perverts won.
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A loving biography ... Crumb’s gawky, eccentric persona was first revealed to the wider public in a 1994 documentary made by his friend Terry Zwigoff ... If the documentary presented him as a sort of accidental artist, with little other than his id propelling him from drawing to drawing, a more intentional drive emerges in the biography.
