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.
“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.”
“People said to me, ‘That is so outrageous, how could you draw yourself sitting on a toilet?'” she said in a 2019 interview. An early cover of the“Twisted Sisters” anthology - on which she collaborated with cartoonist Diane Noomin during her early years in the San Francisco 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.
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