"Dan Nadel brings his singularly tilted perspective to the most monolithic visual prankster of the last century, walking us deep into the epicenter of R. Crumb's complex world. With empathy, wisdom, and a profound ability to situate the artist within the political and social realities that formed him, this book will stand tall next to the great biographies as a window into the counterculture at the moment we need it most. A witty, wise and unusual writer, Nadel upcycles the rags of American history to craft something boldly new, about a man who is both omnipresent and utterly unknown." —Lena Dunham

"Crumb is fabulous, an engrossing biography, both intimate about the man but insightful about the times. Dan Nadel has written a revealing ‘portrait of the artist as a young man’—but also about the mature curmudgeon we all know as ‘R. Crumb,’ the signature Sixties artist of underground comics. Hilarious at times, poignant and always empathetic, Crumb is a marvelous trip crafted by a brilliant biographer." 
—Kai Bird, co-author of  Pulitzer Prize-winning American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

“There’s no better guide through the rough, raw underworld of R. Crumb than Dan Nadel. A definitive account that reads like an intimate memoir, Crumb’s scenic history of counterculture cartooning in America contains the same propulsive energy and vivid details as its subject.”
—Prudence Peiffer, author of The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever
 
“The intimacy of Robert Crumb’s work has fascinated me for more than half my life. Every artist should read this book!”
—KAWS

"This is a great biography that explores the complexity of one of the world’s greatest cartoonists ever."
—Art Spiegelman, author of Maus

"Before you know it, Dan has nimbly and enjoyably laid out the entire guts of five decades of the life and work of Crumb. Crumb’s work is realer than real and Dan lets it live as it was and is."
—Bill Callahan, author of Letters to Emma Bowlcut