Aline Kominsky Crumb: Need More Love, Drawings & Other Works, 1971-2006

Aline Kominsky Crumb... Heeb (2006, cover, Collaboration with Robert Crumb, Ink and watercolor on paper). From the exhibition Aline Kominsky Crumb: Need More Love, Drawings & Other Works, 1971-2006 at Adam Baumgold Gallery. "...Since 1971, Crumb has been one of the seminal figures in American comics. She was one of the first contributors to the groundbreaking Wommen’s Comix, and,with Diane Noomin, founded the underground classic comic Twisted Sisters in 1976. She was one of the first artists to do autobiographical comics and develop the graphic novel form.
One of the comic drawings included in the exhibition is the three page story Nose Job, 1989, a typically densely packed and tightly rendered drawing that is filled with the artist’s painfully humorous, self deprecating observations about the advantages a nose job might bring to a teenager growing up 'Jewish' on Long Island in the mid 1960’s. As Crumb says 'Just think... I could‘ve ended up looking like Marlo Thomas instead of Danny, if only I’d had a nose job.'
Aline Kominsky Crumb has also been a longtime collaborator with her husband, famed cartoonist, Robert Crumb, on such comic classics as Dirty Laundry Comics, Weirdo magazine, where Ms. Crumb was also an editor, Self Loathing Comics, and their joint work for several years for The New Yorker."