Aline Kominsky-Crumb
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Aline Kominsky-Crumb at comics conference at the University of Chicago in 2012
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| Born | Aline Goldsmith August 1, 1948 Long Beach, New York, U.S. |
| Area(s) | Cartoonist, Writer, Penciller, Artist, Inker |
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Notable works
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Twisted Sisters Dirty Laundry Comics |
| Collaborators | Robert Crumb |
| Spouse(s) | Robert Crumb (m. 1978) |
| Children | Sophie Crumb |
Aline Kominsky-Crumb (born Aline Goldsmith; August 1, 1948) is an American underground comics artist.
Aline Goldsmith was born to a Jewish family in the Five Towns area of Long Island, New York. Her father was a largely unsuccessful businessman and organized crime associate. As a teenager, she turned to drugs and the counterculture, and was a hanger-on to New York countercultural musicians such as The Fugs. Relocating to East Village during her college years, she began studying art at The Cooper Union.
In 1968, she married Carl Kominsky, with whom she relocated to Tucson, Arizona. Their marriage did not last long. However, she retained the surname Kominsky after their split. During this time, she attended University of Arizona, graduating with a BFA in 1971. She was introduced to Spain Rodriguez and Kim Deitch by former Fugs drummer Ken Weaver, who was living in Tucson at the time. Rodriguez and Deitch introduced her to underground comics, inspiring her to begin writing underground comics herself and to relocate to San Francisco.
Soon after arriving in San Francisco, she was introduced to Robert Crumb by mutual friends, who had noted an uncanny resemblance between her and the coincidentally-named Crumb character Honeybunch Kaminski. Their relationship soon became serious and they began living together. She also fell in with the Wimmen's Comix collective, and contributed to the first few issues of that series. After she and Diane Noomin had a falling out with Trina Robbins and other members of the collective, they started their own title, Twisted Sisters. Kominsky-Crumb later claimed that a large part of her break with the Wimmen's Comix group was over feminist issues and particularly over her relationship with Robert Crumb, whom Robbins particularly disliked.
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