"Aline Kominsky-Crumb confronts the crazy, ever-shifting expectations of how women are supposed to be - and blows them to smithereens."- Village Voice "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 her messy self-examinations seem even more relevant today."- New York Times
Kominsky-Crumb’s own work - nakedly self-revealing and self-obsessed years ahead of the rest of the culture. Originally published as a book in 1990, this new expanded edition follows her to the present, including an afterword penned by the noted comics scholar Hillary Chute. Love That Bunch will be Kominsky-Crumb’s only solo-authored book in print.
One of the most famous and idiosyncratic cartoonists of our time, Kominsky-Crumb traces her steps from a Beatles-loving fangirl, an East Village groupie, an adult grappling with her childhood, and a 1980s housewife and mother, to a new thirty-page story, “Dream House,” that looks back on her childhood forty years later. Most important, she does so without apology. Kominsky-Crumb was ahead of her time in juxtaposing the contradictory nature of female sexuality with a proud, complicated feminism. Her exaggerated comix alter ego, Bunch, is self-destructive and grotesque but crackles with the self-deprecating humor and honesty of a cartoonist confident in the story she wants to tell.Ĭollecting comics from the 1970s through today, Love That Bunch is shockingly prescient while still being an authentic story of its era. In fact, her darkest secrets and deepest insecurities were all the more fodder for groundbreaking stories. Kominsky-Crumb didn’t worry about self-flattery. The early work of the pioneering feminist cartoonist plus her acclaimed new story “Dream House"Īline 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.
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