Pete Ashton's Notes & Links

This is my notebook. Stuff I’m doing, stuff I’m thinking about, stuff I’ve seen online and feel is worth sharing.

A letter I still owe Dan Nadel about Robert Crumb and racial obscenity

I enjoyed Nadal’s biography of Crumb and would highly recommend it, but a Crumb biography in the 2020s is a curious proposition as a lot of the work has not aged well. (To his credit, Nadal addresses this throughout.)

R Fiore is a comics critic from the no-censorship, anything-goes days who respects that we live in a different and better time now, so how do we deal with an artist as vital and important a Crumb?