Bleeding seems like an apt metaphor for the nakedly confessional art of Robert Dennis Crumb (b. 1943), a man so obsessed with his own id that one of his comic books is actually called "Id."
With a dual-venue exhibition in Los Angeles, comics by masters such as Winsor McCay, Chris Ware, and Charles Schulz have been elevated from pop culture to fine art. But as these artists receive their…