Synopsis
The early work of the pioneering feminist cartoonist plus her acclaimed new story “Dream House"
Aline Kominsky-Crumb immediately made her mark in the Bay Area’s underground comix scene with unabashedly raw, dirty, unfiltered comics chronicling the thoughts and desires of a woman coming of age in the 1960s. Kominsky-Crumb didn’t worry about self-flattery. In fact, her darkest secrets and deepest insecurities...
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01 May 2018
9781770463059Reviews
"[There is a] pioneering quality of Ms. Kominsky-Crumb’s own work — nakedly self-revealing and self-obsessed years ahead of the rest of the culture ... her messy self-examinations seem even more relevant today."—New York Times
"Today the significance of Kominsky-Crumb’s oeuvre — not only to emerging comics artists but also to writers and comedians well outside the comics industry — cannot be overstated… Almost 50 years into her career, Kominsky-Crumb is an underground hero whose enduring influence isn’t quite so underground."—Huffington Post
"Aline Kominsky-Crumb confronts the crazy, ever-shifting expectations of how women are supposed to be — and blows them to smithereens."—Village Voice
“This retrospective collection from underground comics legend Aline Kominsky-Crumb is the only book devoted to her work, tracing a path from unpretty youthful bodily explorations to quotidian adventures.”—Elle
"One of the best things about Kominsky-Crumb is that she is not only aware of the possibility of her readers’ discomfort—she exploits it... Love That Bunch is a bitter, poignant, satisfying epic of how one Jewish woman survived her Jewish 20th-century family. If I had a daughter, I would make her read it.”—Tablet
"Borrowing unapologetically from life, Kominsky-Crumb draws with a line that is unmistakably her own."—New Republic
“Raucous and raunchy… This is a perfect book to give to any woman, of any age, in your life.”—Nylon’s Best Illustrated Books of 2018
