Nicholas Burman
, April 3rd, 2021 09:26
While Robert Crumb’s style and dedication to his generation’s underground comix artists has inspired a huge array of artists from a variety of backgrounds and of numerous identities, for decades his depictions and framing of women and his adoption of racist stereotypes have been under fire
Crumb’s World, 2021. Photo by Alex Casto. Courtesy of David Zwirner Books
In 2016 Fantagraphics, who have republished much of Crumb’s work, released a book about its own history titled
We Told You So: Comics as Art, and the appearance of Crumb’s work in the context of the art book market (