The biggest flaw in this book is in its presentation of the art. Maybe a Komplete Kominsky Komics is in order? I understand the necessity, but I still miss the sense of her work evolving. Everything is ordered according to her life's chronology, which means comics are included in the order in which the events they depict happened, which is not always the order in which they were created. Anyone who's been following her career probably knows much of this material already. The book serves as kind of a patchwork autobiography, prose interspersed with photos and comics. She's definitely not just riding on his coattails. Yeah, her husband does incredible work, but so does she. I definitely knew her first as Robert Crumb's Wife Who Also Does Comics, but I came to appreciate her for her own voice and aesthetic. Probably in Weirdo, or possibly one of the other 80's undergrounds. I've been a fan of Aline Kominsky Crumb's work for so long that I've forgotten where I first encountered it.
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