![]() ![]() Their relationship soon became serious, and they began living together. In 1972, soon after arriving in San Francisco, Aline was introduced to Robert Crumb by mutual friends, who had noted an uncanny resemblance between her and the coincidentally-named Crumb character Honeybunch Kaminski (who had been created in 1970). Rodriguez and Deitch introduced her to underground comix, inspiring her to begin making underground comics herself and to relocate to San Francisco. Kominsky-Crumb was introduced to underground cartoonists Spain Rodriguez and Kim Deitch by former Fugs drummer Ken Weaver, who was living in Tucson at the same time. During this time, she attended University of Arizona, graduating with a BFA in 1971. However, she retained the surname Kominsky after their split. ![]() In 1968, Aline married Carl Kominsky, with whom she relocated to Tucson, Arizona. Relocating to East Village during her college years, she began studying art at The Cooper Union. As a teenager, she turned to drugs and the counterculture, and was a hanger-on to New York countercultural musicians such as The Fugs. Her father was a largely unsuccessful businessman and organized crime associate. Their daughter, Sophie Crumb, is also a cartoonist.īiography Early life and education Īline Goldsmith was born to a Jewish family in the Five Towns area of Long Island, New York. She was married to cartoonist Robert Crumb, with whom she frequently collaborated. In 2016, Comics Alliance listed Kominsky-Crumb as one of twelve women cartoonists deserving of lifetime achievement recognition. Kominsky-Crumb's work, which is almost exclusively autobiographical, is known for its unvarnished, confessional nature. She has had solo exhibitions at DCKT Contemporary in New York City (2014, with Kominsky-Crumb 2010), and her work has been featured in group exhibitions at the Musée régional d’art contemporain Occitanie in Sérignan, France (2022) and BravinLee Programs in New York City (2016).Aline Kominsky-Crumb (née Goldsmith Aug– November 29, 2022) was an American underground comics artist. Sophie Crumb: Evolution of a Crazy Artist, a publication featuring over three hundred of her drawings, which tracks her development as an artist from her youth through her late twenties, was published in 2010. In 2002, Fantagraphics Books published Belly Button Comix, Crumb’s autobiographical comic detailing living in Paris in her early twenties. ![]() As a young girl, Crumb was an avid reader of comics and contributed some of her childhood illustrations to her parents’ well-known series Weirdo and Dirty Laundry Comics. A collection of work from throughout her career was published in 2007 as Need More Love: A Graphic Memoir by M Q Publications.īorn in 1981 in Woodland, California, Sophie Crumb began drawing and making cartoons and illustrations at the age of two. Kominsky-Crumb was one of the first contributors to the all-female anthology Wimmen’s Comix in 1971, founded the seminal comics series Twisted Sisters with Diane Noonin in 1976 and, during the 1980s, served as editor for the influential alternative comics anthology Weirdo, to which she also contributed throughout its run. Born Aline Goldsmith in Long Island, New York in 1948, Kominsky-Crumb earned her BFA from the University of Arizona in 1971. Since 1971, Aline Kominsky-Crumb has been a pioneering figure in the world of comics. Sullivant and James Gillray, among others. The artist's work draws inspiration from Thomas Nast, Honoré Daumier, T.S. Crumb was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1943. Crumb frequently collaborates with his spouse Aline Kominsky-Crumb and daughter Sophie Crumb, both important comic artists in their own right. The artist's drawings offer a satirical critique of modern consumer culture and seem to possess an outsider’s perspective-a self-conscious stance, which Crumb often relates to his personal life. Crumb has used the popular medium of the comic book to address the absurdity of social conventions, political disillusionment, irony, racial and gender stereotypes, sexual fantasies and fetishes. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |