TICKETHOLDERS: This event with Robert Crumb & Dan Nadel is cancelled. Unfortunately, Mr. Crumb is unable to travel to San Francisco due to health reasons. You are automatically being issued a refund the week of March 10. If you have any questions, please reach out to us at 415-563-2463 or [email protected].
Instrumental in the formation of the underground comics scene in the 1960s and 1970s, Robert Crumb has helped challenge and expand the boundaries of the graphic arts. Widely circulated and celebrated, Crumb’s published imagery, such as his comic strips Fritz the Cat, Mr. Natural, and Keep on Truckin’, offers a mordant satirical critique of modern society. Dan Nadel, a curator and writer specializing in comics and art, shares how this complicated artist survived childhood abuse, fame in his twenties, more fame, and came out the other side intact in his new book Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life.
Steven Winn is a San Francisco writer and critic whose work has appeared in Musical America, the New York Times, Opera, and the San Francisco Chronicle, where he was the paper’s Arts and Culture Critic from 2000-2008. Winn’s memoir, Come Back, Como; Winning the Heart of a Reluctant Dog, has been translated into nine languages. His past City Arts & Lectures interviews include Patti LuPone, Frances McDormand, Tony Kushner, Louise Erdrich, Steve Martin, and David Brooks.
A limited number of tickets include a complimentary copy of Dan Nadel’s Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life
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