Aline Kominsky-Crumb was born on Long Island, New York, and is one of the most influential cartoonists of the underground era as the cartoonist behind Dirty Laundry Comics and Arcade; a contributor to Wimmen s Commix; cofounder of Twisted Sisters; editor of the anthology Weirdo; and author of the graphic memoir Need More Love. Since the 1990s, she has lived in the south of France with her husband, Robert Crumb. In 2017, the David Zwirner Gallery in New York City held a joint exhibition of their artwork: Aline Kominsky-Crumb and R. Crumb: Drawn Together.
"[There is a] pioneering quality of Ms. Kominsky-Crumb's own work
-- nakedly self-revealing and self-obsessed years ahead of the rest
of the culture ... her messy self-examinations seem even more
relevant today."--New York Times
"Today the significance of Kominsky-Crumb's oeuvre -- not only to
emerging comics artists but also to writers and comedians well
outside the comics industry -- cannot be overstated... Almost 50
years into her career, Kominsky-Crumb is an underground hero whose
enduring influence isn't quite so underground."--Huffington Post
"Aline Kominsky-Crumb confronts the crazy, ever-shifting
expectations of how women are supposed to be -- and blows them to
smithereens."--Village Voice
"This retrospective collection from underground comics legend Aline
Kominsky-Crumb is the only book devoted to her work, tracing a path
from unpretty youthful bodily explorations to quotidian
adventures."--Elle "One of the best things about Kominsky-Crumb is
that she is not only aware of the possibility of her readers'
discomfort--she exploits it... Love That Bunch is a bitter,
poignant, satisfying epic of how one Jewish woman survived her
Jewish 20th-century family. If I had a daughter, I would make her
read it."--Tablet "Borrowing unapologetically from life,
Kominsky-Crumb draws with a line that is unmistakably her
own."--New Republic
"Raucous and raunchy... This is a perfect book to give to any
woman, of any age, in your life."--Nylon's Best Illustrated Books
of 2018
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