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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