"In the spring of 1962, an 18-year-old Robert Crumb was beaned in the forehead by a solid glass ashtray. His mother, Bea, had hurled it at his father, Chuck, who ducked. Robert was bloodied and dazed, ...

Underground comic book artist Robert Crumb created ZAP COMIX and is the artist behind such 1960s and 1970s icons as Mr. Natural, Fritz the Cat, and Keep-on-Truckin. His wife, Aline Kominsky Crumb, was ...

Diane Noomin was a pioneering female voice in the revolutionary underground comics scene of the 1960s, but she also never stopped speaking out. The artist and writer — who lived the last 34 years of ...

Erupting from the turbulent social waters of the 1960’s counter-culture movement, the genre known as underground comics kicked down the doors of the staid funny book status quo with frank depictions ...

Underground cartoonist Manuel “Spain” Rodriguez was a provocateur by nature. Deeply shaped by his working-class upstate New York upbringing and socialist politics, Rodriguez’s artwork reflects an ...

Justin Green, a Chicago native whose early underground comix of the 1960s and 1970s influenced several generations of artists to adapt their most painful personal experiences into comics, died ...

R. Crumb created Zap Comix and such characters as Mr. Natural and Fritz the Cat. His comics were a staple of the 1960s counterculture, and came out of his nightmares, fantasies and fetishes. There was ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Art Spiegelman, the artist most famous for his novel Maus, makes comix. No, that’s not a ...