Aline Kominsky-Crumb, who transformed comics first as a muse and then as a feminist artist, dies at 74
Aline Kominsky-Crumb brought to comics raw self-lacerating accountability and subverted crude stereotypes about Jewish women
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Culture How The Crumbs Have Kept Their 46-Year Love Affair Alive
‘He’s the straight man, I’m the pratfall,”Aline Kominsky-Crumb said by way of explaining the dynamics of the collaborative comics she has been making with her husband, Robert Crumb, for well over 40 years. Oh, but that much was clear from the start of my time with Kominsky-Crumb. Having ostensibly been told that I was to…
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Life The Genesis of the Tablet
Blogging about a new illustrated version of Genesis from graphic artist extraordinaire Robert Crumb, Sara Ivry of the online magazine Tablet displays some confusion about her own publication’s genesis. Ivry writes: Crumb relied on Robert Alter’s 2004 translated Five Books of Moses, but tweaked Alter’s prose to make it more colloquial. Alter’s translations have been…
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Life Crumbs of Creation
The Guardian reports that Robert Crumb has completed his interpretation of The Book of Genesis, which is scheduled for publication on October 19. For those seeking a sneak peak, Crumb shared sketchbook pages and descriptions of his artistic process with Todd Hignite for Hignite’s 2006 book “In The Studio: Visits With Contemporary Cartoonists.” From Crumb’s…
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