Yes, it's in gorgeous color on nice, heavy stock, but the pages are so small. The biggest flaw in this book is in its presentation of the art. Maybe a Komplete Kominsky Komics is in order? I understand the necessity, but I still miss the sense of her work evolving. Everything is ordered according to her life's chronology, which means comics are included in the order in which the events they depict happened, which is not always the order in which they were created. Anyone who's been following her career probably knows much of this material already. The book serves as kind of a patchwork autobiography, prose interspersed with photos and comics. She's definitely not just riding on his coattails. Yeah, her husband does incredible work, but so does she. I definitely knew her first as Robert Crumb's Wife Who Also Does Comics, but I came to appreciate her for her own voice and aesthetic.

Probably in Weirdo, or possibly one of the other 80's undergrounds. 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.I've been a fan of Aline Kominsky Crumb's work for so long that I've forgotten where I first encountered it. Love That Bunch will be Kominsky-Crumb s only solo-authored book in print. 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. Most important, she does so without apology. Kominsky-Crumb was ahead of her time in juxtaposing the contradictory nature of female sexuality with a proud, complicated feminism. Collecting comics from the 1970s through today, Love That Bunch is shockingly prescient while still being an authentic story of its era. 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. In fact, her darkest secrets and deepest insecurities were all the more fodder for groundbreaking stories. Kominsky-Crumb didn t worry about self-flattery. 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.

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