{"id":62967,"date":"2025-11-05T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/?post_type=lecture&#038;p=62967"},"modified":"2026-03-30T19:12:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T23:12:03","slug":"robert-crumb","status":"publish","type":"lecture","link":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/lecture\/robert-crumb\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Crumb"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><section class=\"wp-block-umw-hero alignfull umw-custom-block umw-hero umw-hero--dark-text umw-hero--white umw-hero--with-no-media\"><div class=\"umw-hero__inner\"><div class=\"umw-hero__media\"><\/div><div class=\"umw-hero__title\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__title__wrapper\"><div class=\"umw-hero__eyebrow\">great lives lecture series<\/div><h1 class=\"umw-hero__title__header\"><strong><strong>Robert Crumb<\/strong><\/strong><\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-umw-hero-ctas alignfull\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links__wrapper\">\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/section><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Great Lives 2026: Robert Crumb\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1164100392?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1100\" height=\"619\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-lecture-date-february-10-2026\">Lecture Date: February 10, 2026<\/h2><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-walter-jervis-sheffield-lecture\">The Walter Jervis Sheffield Lecture<\/h3><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/crumb_cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"232\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/crumb_cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-62947\" style=\"width:276px;height:auto\" title=\"\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/crumb_cover.jpg 232w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/crumb_cover-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div><p>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. Now, for the first time, Dan Nadel, delivers a &ldquo;gripping and essential account&rdquo; (<em>The Boston Globe<\/em>) of how this complicated artist survived childhood abuse, fame in his twenties, more fame, and came out the other side intact. Braiding biography with &ldquo;cultural history and criticism . . . that honors the complexity of [its] subject, even, perhaps particularly, when it gets ugly&rdquo; (<em>Los Angeles Times<\/em>),&nbsp;<em>Crumb<\/em>&nbsp;is the story of a richly complex life at the forefront of both the underground and popular cultures of post-war America.&nbsp;<\/p><div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/19QRABA4CXaUt709mfRqVYcRO5wniwOSj\/edit?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=103238403274382254745&amp;rtpof=true&amp;sd=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">VIEW PHOTO SLIDESHOW<div class=\"arrow\"><\/div><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><p><\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-speaker-dan-nadel\">Speaker: Dan Nadel<\/h2><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/10\/nadel-dan2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/10\/nadel-dan2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-63020\" style=\"width:315px;height:auto\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/10\/nadel-dan2.png 400w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/10\/nadel-dan2-300x300.png 300w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/10\/nadel-dan2-150x150.png 150w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/10\/nadel-dan2-50x50.png 50w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/10\/nadel-dan2-75x75.png 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div><p>Dan Nadel is the Steven and Ann Ames Curator of Drawings and Prints at the Whitney Museum of American Art. He is a co-curator of the museum&rsquo;s fall 2025 exhibition rethinking of the art history of the 1960s,&nbsp;<em>Sixties Surreal.&nbsp;<\/em>His previous books before <em>Crumb: A Cartoonist&rsquo;s Life<\/em> include&nbsp;<em>It&rsquo;s Life as I See It: Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940&ndash;1980<\/em>;<em>&nbsp;Peter Saul: Professional Artist Correspondence, 1945&ndash;1976<\/em>; and&nbsp;<em>Art Out of Time: Unknown Comic Visionaries, 1900&ndash;1969<\/em>. He is the founder of PictureBox, a publishing and packaging company that produced over one hundred books, objects, and zines from 2000 to 2014, including the Grammy Award&ndash;winning design for Wilco&rsquo;s 2004 album&nbsp;<em>A Ghost Is Born.&nbsp;<\/em>He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"umw_cb_additional_links":[[]],"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_advisory_expires_time":"","_advisory_meta_include":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"season":[1263],"class_list":{"0":"post-62967","1":"lecture","2":"type-lecture","3":"status-publish","5":"season-1263","6":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Robert Crumb - Great Lives<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/lecture\/robert-crumb\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Robert Crumb\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lecture Date: February 10, 2026The Walter Jervis Sheffield LectureRobert 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. 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