Description
Aline Kominsky-Crumb immediately made her mark in the Bay Area s underground comix scene with unabashedly raw, dirty, unfiltered comics chronicling the thoughts and desires of a woman coming of age in the 1960s. Kominsky-Crumb didn t worry about self-flattery. In fact, her darkest secrets and deepest insecurities were all the more fodder for groundbreaking stories. Her exaggerated comix alter ego, Bunch, is self-destructive and grotesque but crackles with the self-deprecating humor and honesty of a cartoonist confident in the story she wants to tell. Collecting comics from the 1970s through today, Love That Bunch is shockingly prescient while still being an authentic story of its era. Kominsky-Crumb was ahead of her time in juxtaposing the contradictory nature of female sexuality with a proud, complicated feminism. Most important, she does so without apology. One of the most famous and idiosyncratic cartoonists of our time, Kominsky-Crumb traces her steps from a Beatles-loving fangirl, an East Village groupie, an adult grappling with her childhood, and a 1980s housewife and mother, to a new thirty-page story, Dream House, that looks back on her childhood forty years later. Love That Bunch will be Kominsky-Crumb s only solo-authored book in print. Originally published as a book in 1990, this new expanded edition follows her to the present, including an afterword penned by the noted comics scholar Hillary Chute.
About the Author
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.
Book Information
ISBN 9781770463059
Author Aline Kominsky-Crumb
Format Hardback
Page Count 168
Imprint Drawn and Quarterly
Publisher Drawn and Quarterly
About the Author
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.
Book Information
ISBN 9781770463059
Author Aline Kominsky-Crumb
Format Hardback
Page Count 168
Imprint Drawn and Quarterly
Publisher Drawn and Quarterly
