Created by the sons of Jewish immigrants, writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, Superman is an example of youthful male ...

J. Hoberman's 'Everything Is Now,' a survey of the 1960's avant-garde arts scene in NYC is a glorious blast from the past.

In “The Many Faces of R. Crumb,” a comic from 1972, the eponymous underground cartoonist offers readers a crash course in his various personae. There’s Crumb the “long-suffering” artist ...

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 ...

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.

Robert Crumb is often credited with single-handedly transforming the comics medium into a place for adult expression, in the process pioneering the underground comic book industry, and ...

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 ...

(As in other underground comics, a searching, sometimes psychoanalytic core can be found below the zaniness.) I first met Hothead in the anthology No Straight Lines, a 40-year survey of queer comics.

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 the ...

For the man who effectively invented underground comics in the 1960s, rubbing his readers’ faces in his sexual proclivities was always the point.