Nausea

Robert Crumb adapts Jean-Paul Sartre's existential novel Nausea into a graphic narrative, published by Reprodukt beginning in 2012. This single-issue comic, with contributions from Harry Rowohlt and Richard von Krafft-Ebing, distills the philosophical dread and absurdity of the source material through Crumb's unmistakable, densely crosshatched art. A distinctive entry in Crumb's late-career literary adaptations, it matters for bringing a landmark of 20th-century philosophy into the comics medium with his characteristic irreverence and meticulous visual storytelling.