R Crumb's Weird Americana

Dan Nadel's biography on the cartoonist is a must

I was vaguely familiar with Robert Crumb’s work the first time I saw Crumb, Terry Zwigoff’s 1994 documentary on the cartoonist. I was about 19 and had seen the record cover he did for Big Brother and the Holding Company and recognized some of his illustrations from shirts and stickers popular with some of the older hippies I’d see from time to time. But…