![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 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. Collecting comics from the 1970s through today, Love That Bunch is shockingly prescient while still being an authentic story of its era. 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. In fact, her darkest secrets and deepest insecurities were all the more fodder for groundbreaking stories. Kominsky-Crumb didn't worry about self-flattery. Aline 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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