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Aline Kominsky-Crumb, pioneering comic memoirist, dies at 74

Aline Kominsky-Crumb, pioneering comic memoirist, dies at 74

Aline Kominsky-Crumb, who in the early 1970s used a self-deprecating and sexualized confessional style to create what is believed to be the first autobiographical work by a woman in underground comics – and who went on to explore her life after her marriage to Robert Crumb, a giant of the genre – died on Wednesday …

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Aline Kominsky-Crumb, underground cartoonist, dies at 74

Aline Kominsky-Crumb, underground cartoonist, dies at 74

Aline Kominsky-Crumb, an American cartoonist known for her feminist themes and often brutally candid, highly personal and self-critical work, has died at the age of 74. Kominsky-Crumb, who was a close associate of her cartoonist husband, Robert Crumb, died of cancer on Tuesday at their longtime home in France, said Alexander Wood, head of the …

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