Sixties Surreal
This exhibition catalog explores surrealism’s meanings, roles, and influences in the postwar United States, when an unexpected art rebellion mirrored wider social and cultural unrest. Reviewed by Paul Buhle
Will Eisner: A Comics Biography
The real misery of the comic artist, fighting poverty sans respect or sentimentalization of the historic suffering-artist kind, is evident in this new book by Stephen Weiner and Dan Mazur. Reviewed by Paul Buhle
Crumb
Dan Nadel’s new biography of Robert Crumb offers a deeper and more nuanced view than even the artist’s most devoted fans could have guessed. Reviewed by Paul Buhle