Powell's Presents: Robert Crumb & Dan Nadel / TICKETED EVENT
Schedule
Mon, 21 Apr, 2025 at 07:30 pm
UTC-07:00Location
Revolution Hall | Portland, OR
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Robert Crumb and Dan Nadel at Revolution Hall, April 21 at 7:30 PM.�📕🎟️: Purchase your book-inclusive ticket: https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/76729115/robert-crumb-dan-nadel-portland-revolution-hall
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, as iconic as Walt Disney or Charles Schulz. Now, for the first time, 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. More than just a biography of an iconic cartoonist, Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life (Scribner) is the story of a richly complex life at the forefront of both the underground and popular cultures of post-war America. Crumb spans the pressures of 1950s suburban America and Crumb’s highly dysfunctional early family life; the history of comics and graphic satire; 20th century popular music; the world of the counterculture; the birth of underground comic books in 1960s San Francisco with Crumb’s Zap Comix; the economic challenges and dissolution of the hippie dream; and the path Robert Crumb blazed through it all. Written with Crumb’s cooperation, this fascinating, rollicking book takes in seven decades of Crumb’s iconic works, including Fritz the Cat, Weirdo, and his final book-length comic of The Book of Genesis; capturing, in the process, the essence of an extraordinary artist and his times.
Please note: The event is at Revolution Hall on Monday, April 21 at 7:30pm. Tickets for this event are $45 (before service charges) and include admission, as well as one hardcover copy of Nadel’s Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life. Books distributed at event. Tickets are now on sale and may be purchased here: https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/76729115/robert-crumb-dan-nadel-portland-revolution-hall
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Where is it happening?
Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark St, # 110,Portland, Oregon, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
