Aline Kominsky-Crumb, underground cartoonist, dies at 74
Aline Kominsky-Crumb, an American cartoonist known for her feminist themes and often brutally frank, highly personal and self-critical work, has died at the age of 74.Kominsky-Crumb, who was a close collaborator of her cartoonist husband, Robert Crumb, died of cancer Tuesday at their longtime home in France, said Alexander Wood, manager of the website that sells Crumb's work."She was the hub of the wheel"People said to me, 'That is so outrageous, how could you draw yourself sitting on a toilet?'" she said in a 2019 video interview. "I said, 'I don't know, it seemed natural to me.'" She noted that could only draw on herself in her work, because "it's the only thing I know about."
