Aline Kominsky-Crumb

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Aline Kominsky-Crumb

Aline Kominsky-Crumb (born Aline Goldsmith, born August 1, 1948 in Long Beach , New York) is an American comic producer and artist. She became known through underground comix , which she publishes with her husband Robert Crumb .

life and career

She was born into a middle-class Jewish family in the Five Towns area of Long Island . Her father was a largely unsuccessful businessman and has been implicated in organized crime. She later claimed that the social milieu in the film Goodfellas bore some resemblance to her own childhood (some of the mafiosi characters in that film were from Five Towns). As a teenager, she took drugs and turned to counterculture . She was one of the groupies of the New York counterculture music scene such as B. the Fugs . During her college days, she moved to the East Village and began studying art at Cooper Union .

In 1968 she married her first husband, Carl Kominsky, with whom she moved to Tucson , Arizona . Their marriage did not last long. However, after their separation, she kept the surname Kominsky. During this time she attended the University of Arizona and graduated in 1971 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts . Former Fugs drummer Ken Weaver introduced her to Spain Rodriguez and Kim Deitch , who were living in Tucson at the time. Through Spain and Deitch she came into contact with underground comics, which inspired her to draw underground comics herself. During this time she moved to San Francisco.

Soon after arriving in San Francisco, she met Robert Crumb through mutual friends . Crumb noticed an amazing resemblance between her name and one of his characters: the Honeybunch Kaminski. Kominsky and Crumb began a serious relationship and moved in together. She joined the Wimmen's Comix collective and contributed the first work to this series. After she and Diane Noomin fell out with Trina Robbins and other members of the collective, they started their own project, the Twisted Sisters . Kominsky-Crumb later justified the break with the Wimmen's Comix group with differences on feminist issues, but mainly because of their relationship with Robert Crumb, against whom Robbins had a particular dislike.

Aline married Robert Crumb in 1978. Their daughter Sophie Crumb was born in 1981. Since the late 1970s, she and Robert produced a comic book series called Dirty Laundry (also known as Aline & Bob's Dirty Laundry), a comic about crumb family life. Each of them brought their own characters into the comic. Subsequent episodes of Dirty Laundry also included contributions from Sophie, who began drawing comics when she was a teenager.

For several years in the 1980s, Aline was the editor of Weirdo , a leading alternative comic book anthology of the time. Her predecessors were Peter Bagge and originally Robert Crumb. She appeared in the documentary Crumb (1994), which was about her family life. She has lived with her husband as an expatriate since the early 1990s in the small village of Sauve in the Gard department in southern France .

In addition to her work in comics, Kominsky-Crumb is also a painter and has increasingly concentrated on painting since moving to France. In February 2007, she published a memoir called Need More Love: A Graphic Memoir , a collection of her comics and paintings, along with photographs and autobiographical writings.

Comic contributions

  • Wimmen's Comix No. 1, 2, No. 4 (1972 to 1974)
  • El Perfecto (1973) - Contributor & Editor
  • Manhunt (1973–1974)
  • Dirty Laundry (1974-1977, 1993)
  • Arcade (1975-1976)
  • Twisted Sisters (1976, 1994, 1995)
  • Lemme Outta Here (1978)
  • Best Buy Comics (1979)
  • Weirdo (1986-1993) - Contributor & Editor

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Kominsky-Crumb, Aline. (2007). Need more love. New York: MQ Publications. ISBN 1-84601-133-7
  2. ^ Love Among the Crumbs Steve Dollar in The New York Sun

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personal data
SURNAME Kominsky-Crumb, Aline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American comic editor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Long Beach (New York)