Kominsky-Crumb was born on Long Island, in the suburb of Five Towns. 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 a 2018 article in The New York Times. Author Art Spiegelman made a similar connection. Much more recently, she also admired Lena Dunham and her show "Girls," and was thrilled to learn that Dunham had actually said she was influenced by Kominsky-Crumb's artwork. Kominsky-Crumb described as creative influences both German Expressionist art and the late Jewish comic Joan Rivers, whose standup routines she admired partly for their self-deprecating nature. "I said, 'I don't know, it seemed natural to me.'" She noted that could only draw on herself in her work, because "it's the only thing I know about."īook Reviews 'Love That Bunch' Immortalizes Lifelong Troublemaker Aline Kominsky-Crumb "People said to me, 'That is so outrageous, how could you draw yourself sitting on a toilet?'" she said in a 2019 video interview. An early cover of the"Twisted Sisters" anthology - on which she collaborated with cartoonist Diane Noomin during her early years in the Bay Area - depicted her sitting nearly naked on the toilet, wondering how many calories there were in a cheese enchilada. " Kominsky-Crumb was known for work that was not only autobiographical but often bracingly sexual - focusing on her insecurities - and explicit. "She had a huge amount of energy which she poured into her artwork, her daughter, her grandchildren and the meals which brought everyone together. "She was the hub of the wheel within her family and community," the website wrote in announcing her death. Kominsky-Crumb, who was a close collaborator of her cartoonist husband, Robert Crumb, died of cancer Tuesday at their longtime home in France, said Alexander Wood, manager of the website that sells Crumb's work. Comics illustrator Aline Kominsky-Crumb appears during an interview at the Society of Illustrators in New York on March 24, 2011.Īline Kominsky-Crumb, an American cartoonist known for her feminist themes and often brutally frank, highly personal and self-critical work, has died at the age of 74.
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