Aline Kominsky-Crumb, who transformed comics as a feminist artist, dies at 74
Jewish illustrator who married Robert Crumb embraced his art form and helped shape it with raw accountability and subverted stereotypes
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Jewish illustrator who married Robert Crumb embraced his art form and helped shape it with raw accountability and subverted stereotypes
Aline Kominsky-Crumb, who died Wednesday at 74 in France of pancreatic cancer, was Jewish cartoonist Robert Crumb's longtime partner.
Aline Kominsky-Crumb brought to comics raw self-lacerating accountability and subverted crude stereotypes about Jewish women.
With its Chicana punk rockers and panels of untranslated Spanish, “Rockets” was unlike anything else — and, it turns out, just what the world of comics was craving.
One really great thing to do every day of the week.