Jul. 22—The most surprising thing in comic books way back in 2009 wasn't a superhero returning from the dead, or the latest Marvel or DC mega-crossover. The most surprising comic book/graphic novel ...

LOS ANGELES – His religious upbringing might well be as unorthodox as the psychedelic-inspired comic-strip characters that have made R. Crumb the most famous underground artist of his time. Which, ...

For an exhibition consisting primarily of black-and-white line drawings, Aline Kominsky-Crumb & R. Crumb: Drawn Together is surprisingly colorful. Including more than 30 framed works, in addition to ...

The Fine Arts Building isn’t just for art students. Housed in the Art Building across from Storrs Center are the Contemporary Art Galleries, which currently feature an exhibition of the work of Robert ...

Last year an undercover policeman from the Morals Squad walked into the New Yorker Bookshop on West 89th Street and asked for a copy of R. Crumb’s Zap comics, number four. Charles Kirkpatrick, the ...

Every item on this page was chosen by an ELLE editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Decades before Fleabag snogged a priest, before a Snuggie-wrapped Liz Lemon dined ...

Aline Kominsky-Crumb, who in the early 1970s used a self-deprecating and sexualized confessional style to create what is believed to be the first autobiographical work by a woman in underground comics ...

One of the nation’s most ribald and bawdy comic artists has taken on a new subject: the Bible. Namely, Robert Crumb has painstakingly illustrated all of Genesis, the first book of what many consider ...

Don’t be that girl. Don’t be a groupie. Don’t be a yenta. Don’t be a “sex-crazed housewife.” Don’t get in a car with that boy. Be thin, but don’t obsess over exercise or calories. Have sex, but not ...

People say “it’s boring” — as if that were a final standard of appeal, and no work of art had the right to bore us. But most of the interesting art of our time is boring. Jasper Johns is boring.