Dan Nadel

Dan Nadel is the author of Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life (Scribner, April 15, 2025). He is a the Curator-at-Large for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art and is a co-curator of an exhibition rethinking the 1960s at the Whitney Museum of American Art (September 2025).

He has authored books including Peter Saul: Professional Artist Correspondence 1945-1976; Return to Romance: The Strange Love Stories of Ogden Whitney (with Frank Santoro), The Collected Hairy Who Publications, Art Out of Time: Unknown Comic Visionaries, 1900-1969, Gary Panter, Art in Time: Unknown Comic Book Adventures, 1940-1980, and co-authored (with Norman Hathaway) Electrical Banana: Masters of Psychedelic Art, and Dorothy and Otis: Designing the American Dream.

Dan was the co-editor of The Comics Journal from 2011 through 2017, and has published essays and criticism in Art in America, the New York Review of Books, and Artforum.

As a curator, he has mounted exhibitions including: What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art: 1960 to the Present in Providence and New York, “Victor Moscoso: Psychedelic Drawings, 1967-1982 in New York, Return of the Repressed: Destroy All Monsters 1973-1977 in Los Angeles; Karl Wirsum: Drawings 1967-1970 in New York; Suellen Rocca: Bare Shouldered Beauty in New York; Gertrude Abercrombie,” New York; Red Grooms, Handiwork 1955-2018, New York; Kathy Butterly: ColorForm, Davis, CA. He is the founder of PictureBox, a Grammy Award-winning publishing company that produced books and projects from 2000 to 2014.