She and Diane Noomin had a falling out with Robbins and other members of the group over feminist issues, as well as her relationship with Crumb, and they started “Twisted Sisters” in 1976. There, she met Robert Crumb, and joined the “Wimmen’s Comix” collective headed by Trina Robbins, contributing to the first few issues of their series when it launched that year. She relocated to San Francisco after being introduced to the underground comix scene in 1972. In the meantime, she studied art at the Cooper Union in New York, and the University of Arizona. When she was 20, she married Carl Kominsky, whom she relocated with to Arizona while the marriage didn’t last long, she retained his surname. Her father was a largely unsuccessful businessman and organized crime associate, and she turned to drugs and counterculture music as a teenager. The wife of Robert Crumb, and the mother of fellow cartoonist Sophie Crumb, Aline Kominsky-Crumb was best known for her collaborations with her husband, and for being the co-creator of the long-running all-female anthology series “Twisted Sisters.”Īline Goldsmith was born into a Jewish family in Long Island, New York, on August 1, 1948. CBR and other outlets report American underground cartoonist Aline Kominsky-Crumb has passed away at her home in France on Tuesday, November 29, after a battle with pancreatic cancer.
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