![]() ![]() Kominsky-Crumb's drawing is as raw and untidy as her life, but certainly very few comics artists can take such painful introspection to such a delightful end. ![]() These stories touch on every phase of her existence from childhood, to sexual obsessions, food, motherhood and, of course, her art. In Other stories recount her adolescence and depict her garish relatives with a mixture of casual honesty and a survivor's bemused sense of triumph. Aline Kominsky-Crumb Love That Bunch Paperback Januby Aline Kominsky-Crumb (Author) 10 ratings See all formats and editions Hardcover 26.44 7 Used from 26.86 12 New from 19.91 Paperback 63.51 4 Used from 55.00 2 New from 60. In ``Blabette 'n' Arnie'' Kominsky-Crumb portrays her parents and their bleak, demanding personalities. Her funny/sad tales show a woman bewildered by her place in society and determined to find her own way. Our critic says its certainly comprehensive but lacking somewhat in fun. The road to becoming an underground-comics legend begins with Kominsky-Crumb as a nice Jewish girl from Long Island, carries her to Greenwich Village in the 1960s, and to California, land of hippy cartoonists, and on to a more or less sedate life with hubby (the equally legendary R. This heavy, important-feeling retrospective covers several decades of Kominsky-Crumbs flawed but fascinating work. Kominsky-Crumb's comics present a poignant and amusing look at her own remarkable development. ![]()
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