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Kominsky-Crumb is survived by her husband and daughter.

“That’s just the consciousness that I have and that I’ve always had of myself, as being an absurd creature on this planet.” “I can’t help seeing the absurdity of myself at all times,” she said in the 2019 interview, trying to describe her ethos. Her retrospective “Love That Bunch” was published in 1990 and expanded in 2018. A documentary about their life, “Crumb,” was released in 1994.Īmong her works, Kominsky-Crumb published a graphic memoir, “Need More Love,” in 2007, a collection of her artwork over four decades. In the early 1990s, the family moved to France, settling in a medieval village in the Languedoc-Roussillon region. They had a daughter, Sophie, who is also a comics artist. With Crumb, whom she married in 1978, she produced a series of comics called “Aline and Bob’s Dirty Laundry” about their family. “I felt like I wanted to have as much sex as possible and be as promiscuous as I wanted to be on my own terms,” she said. The break in the Wimmen’s Comix collective was between two factions with different approaches, she said - those who were “very militant feminists” and others, like her, “who were feminists but also liked men.” Crumb - in the early 1970s in San Francisco, where she became part of the all-female Wimmen’s Comix collective before breaking with the group and starting “Twisted Sisters” with Noomin, who died in September. She studied art in her college years at the Cooper Union in Manhattan, and later relocated to Arizona, earning a bachelor’s in fine arts at the University of Arizona.

“Reading and drawing and painting were the things that saved me from a very difficult childhood,” she said in 2019, “with somewhat harsh parents.” And it’s a liberated and liberating way of looking at oneself.” “They are just trying to live and breathe as women with all their contradictions. “She has something in common with Lena Dunham, Amy Poehler, Amy Schumer, Sarah Silverman, women who are trying to grapple with their identities in a way that is not prettified,” Spiegelman, author of “Maus,” said in 2018. Much more recently, she said she also admired Lena Dunham and her HBO show “Girls,” and was thrilled to learn that Dunham had said she was influenced by Kominsky-Crumb’s artwork.Īuthor Art Spiegelman made a similar connection. Kominsky-Crumb said her creative influences included both German Expressionist art and the late comic Joan Rivers, whose standup routines she admired partly for their self-deprecating nature. Self-portraits that illustrate life stages of the iconic drawer.

Love That Bunch by Aline Kominsky-Crumb