![]() ![]() In 1966, she moved to New York City to attend Cooper Union and while there became enmeshed in the downtown countercultural milieu, experimenting with drugs and hanging out with musicians including members of the Fugs. Raised largely by her grandparents, Goldsmith was subjected to verbal and physical abuse at the hands of her parents she would later detail the experience in 2018’s My Very Own Dream House. Kominsky-Crumb was born Aline Goldsmith in 1948, in Long Island, New York, the daughter of a wealthy mother, and a father who had been a photographer for Stars and Stripes before turning to organized crime. I scratch it out like the George Grosz of underground comics.” “The story comes out, I have to let it come out. “I don’t censor myself at all,” she told Artforum earlier this year. ![]() ![]() Frequently autobiographical, her comics touched on subjects ranging from masturbation to menopause, abortion to adoption, hairy armpits to receding hairlines, and broke ground for generations of women comedians, writers, and comics artists. Kominsky-Crumb in the 1970s emerged as a comedic and artistic force with comics that unsparingly, often crassly, depicted the complex emotional and physical lives of women. Pathbreaking underground comics artist Aline Kominsky-Crumb died of pancreatic cancer at her home in the Cévennes region of southern France, at the age of seventy four on November 29. ![]()
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