Dan Nadel

Dan Nadel is the Curator-at-Large at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles, which will open in 2025. His books include It’s Life as I See It: Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940–1980 and Peter Saul: Professional Artist Correspondence, 1945–1976. His biography of Robert Crumb will be published next year. (March 2024)

Cartoon Rules

Bill Griffith's Three Rocks is a portrait of an artist obsessed with the formal mechanics of the comic strip.

Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller, the Man Who Created Nancy

by Bill Griffith

March 7, 2024 issue

Clean Lines, Messy Lives

“The Hernandez brothers’ recurring characters have aged and sprawled out into baroque, visionary stories that alternate between near-anthropologic detail, fantastical pulp, and sexual fetishes.”

Is This How You See Me?

by Jaime Hernandez

Tonta

by Jaime Hernandez

July 23, 2020 issue

Viola Frey: Sculptor of the Anthropocene

Viola Frey helped to change notions that ceramics was inherently a medium for craft, not art. “Center Stage” is the artist’s first major museum survey on the West Coast since 1981.

June 28, 2019

Steve DiBenedetto: A Denatured Humanism

Steve DiBenedetto encodes his works with ideas about paint as if to answer the question, What should a painting look like, in all its confusing, diffuse, and oddball glory, in order to make us feel that we’re human?

April 15, 2018