Aline Kominsky-Crumb & Robert Crumb: Drawn Together

Publisher: Christoph Merian Verlag/Cartoonmuseum Basel

Publication Date: 2016

Text by Anette Gehrig. Contributions by Michael Freund, Sébastien Gokalp, Paul Morris, and Joost Swarte

The USA’s Aline Kominsky-Crumb (b. 1948) and Robert Crumb (b. 1943) are an odd couple—in life, as well as in art. He is a celebrated underground artist and she is a pioneer of the autobiographical comic. Since 1972, they have been collaboratively writing and drawing the autobiographical relationship-and-family comic strip Aline & Bob, in which the societal upheavals of the 1970s, the differences between man and woman, and a handful of substantial neuroses play leading roles: a side-splitting drama, unique in the world of comics, with a wealth of punch lines. The publication Aline Kominsky-Crumb & Robert Crumb. Drawn Together coincides with the exhibition of the same name and contains selected episodes from Aline & Bob, including the stories that have never been published in Europe before, supplemented with solo works by Aline Kominsky-Crumb and Robert Crumb, as well as photographs and articles on the life and works of these artists.

Details

Publisher: Christoph Merian Verlag/Cartoonmuseum Basel

Artist: R. Crumb, Aline Kominsky-Crumb

Publication Date: 2016

ISBN: 9783856168193

Retail: $53 | £45

Status: Not Available

Designer: Groenlandbasel

Printer: Offsetdruckerei Grammlich, Pliezhausen

Binding: Hardcover

Dimensions: 9 x 11 3/4 in (22.9 x 29.8 cm)

Pages: 184

Reproductions: 38 color, 135 b&w

Artist and Contributors

R. Crumb

Instrumental in the formation of the underground comics scene in the 1960s and 1970s, R. Crumb (b. 1943) has helped challenge and expand the boundaries of the graphic arts and redefined comics and cartoons as countercultural art forms. Widely circulated, often celebrated, Crumb’s published imagery, such as his comic strips Fritz the Cat, Mr. Natural, and Keep on Truckin’, offers a mordant satirical critique of modern society.

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