(W) Dan Nadel (A/CA) R. Crumb. 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 transforming the vernacular language of 20th-century America into an instantly recognizable and popular aesthetic* as iconic as Walt Disney or Charles Schulz. Dan Nadel shares how this complicated artist survived childhood abuse* fame in his twenties* more fame* and came out the other side intact. Crumb is the story of a richly complex life at the forefront of both the underground and popular cultures of post-war America. Including forty-five stunning black-and-white images throughout and a sixteen-page color insert featuring images both iconic and obscure* Crumb spans the pressures of 1950s suburban America and Crumb’s highly dysfunctional early family life; the history of comics and graphic satire; 20th century popular music; the world of the counterculture; the birth of underground comic books in 1960s San Francisco with Crumb’s Zap Comix; the economic challenges and dissolution of the hippie dream; and the path Robert Crumb blazed through it all.