PositiveThe Toronto Star (CAN)\"Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life also functions as both a travelogue through America’s ’60s counterculture and a brilliantly concise history of the underground comics scene that sprang from it ... Nadel excels when critiquing Crumb’s work, scrutinizing his use of racist tropes that clashed with his otherwise earthy, progressive ideals, and smartly describes the artist’s technique free of jargon ... Lavishly illustrated, with personal photos...and numerous examples of his work, Crumb is a terrific biography that just misses being a great one. It’s let down, as too many books are these days, by lax copy-editing, which invites errors, clichés and grammatical mishaps onto the pages.\
