It's something I want to enjoy more but after a story or two at a time I found myself struggling. I just wish she let the drawings carry more of the story. I think this book is better than her collabs with her husband Robert Crumb. The newer one has more pages and is published by Drawn & Quarterly in 2018. The introduction by Harvey Pekar in this one is quite good. One older by Fantagraphics in 1990 (that's the one Goodreads shows). I like when she spends more time on the drawings with lots of details - especially the grotesque faces she enjoys drawing. I enjoyed a few of the comics about her younger years and dating. But for the most part each on treads along the same territory with flat drawings and tons of unnecessary dialogue and text making it a slog to get through. There are a few comics in here that are really good. 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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