Debates about comics in the 60s went beyond the likes of whether Superman could beat Galactus or who the strongest Avengers ...

Reading about Feiffer and Crumb made me think of another set of underground comics, ones that also present a world of ...

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 y… ...

It includes an illustrated biography of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara, “Farmworker Comix: A History of Farm and Labor Struggle in California,” and contributions to dozens of major underground ...

Crumb's comics were staples of 1960s counterculture. He's now the subject of a new biography. Crumb spoke to Fresh Air in 2005, and again, with his wife, fellow comic Aline Kominsky Crumb, in 2007.

Underground comics originated in the counterculture of the 1960s and 70s. Titles such as The Freak Brothers and Zap were sold in “head shops,” stores that sold records and tools for smoking ...

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 ...

Kominsky-Crumb, born Aline Goldsmith, grew up in Long Island, and first got into underground comix when she was at the University of Arizona in Tucson in the late 1960s.

It's the first biography written with the cooperation of the artist himself! Dan Nadel, author of the new book "Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life", joined us to share ...

(Spiegelman joined with Crumb to launch the underground comics scene in the 1960s, but they grew apart as Spiegelman, who would author the Holocaust chronicle “Maus,” sought to attach an ...

Art Spiegelman, the artist most famous for his novel Maus, makes comix. No, that’s not a typo, as he explains in an article The Atlantic published last week: Comix have a heritage distinct from ...