Need More Love: A Graphic Memoir [Bargain Price] [Hardcover]

Aline Kominsky Crumb (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 2007

Aline Kominsky-Crumb, one of the earliest female cartoonists, presents a collection of her own highly inventive and daring artwork from over four decades, along with unusual photographs and memorabilia. The road to becoming an underground- comics legend begins with Komisky-Crumb as a nice jewish girl from Long Island, carries her to Greenwich Village in the 1960's, and to California, land of hippy cartoonists, and on to a more or less sedate life with hubby(equally legendary R. Crumb) and daughter, Sophie. Her funny/sad tales show a woman bewildered by her place in society and determined to find her own way. These stories touch on every phase of her existence from childhood, to sexual obsessions, food, motherhood and, of course, her art. The book includes sharp vignettes of the Movers and Shakers - and the jerks - of the art and music worlds since the sixties.

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Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

Best known as underground comics doyen R. Crumb's wife, Kominsky Crumb is a prolific and trailblazing comics autobiographer. In this freewheeling memoir, she chronicles a peripatetic life, starting with the step from a 1950s Long Island childhood to hippie days on the Lower East Side and in San Francisco, where she fell in with the nascent underground comics scene and met Crumb. Disillusioned with America in the early 1990s, the couple emigrated to the south of France, where they now live in a medieval chateau. Kominsky Crumb juxtaposes prose reminiscences with autobiographical strips from the periods under discussion, and besides her solo comics efforts, collaborative comics "jams" with her husband, some of her paintings, photographs of friends and family, and memorabilia appear. Although her raw, messy drawing style and no-holds-barred content are off-putting to many comics fans, there is no denying the potency of her confessional comics. Readers drawn to this volume to learn more about Crumb are likely to come away from it with a newfound appreciation of his talented spouse. Gordon Flagg
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 383 pages
• Publisher: M Q Publications; 1ST edition (February 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1846011590
• ISBN-13: 978-1846011597
• ASIN: B0017174SW
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.7 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #413,132 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love that bunch!, February 28, 2007

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Karen Renee "karen" (oakland, ca) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Need More Love: A Graphic Memoir (Hardcover)

I've been reading Aline Kominsky-Crumb's comix for many, many years - from her appearances in the Twisted Sister anthology to her more recently published work (in comics co-drawn with husband Robert Crumb) in The New Yorker.

This hefty book is part memoir, part scrapbook, part diary, and is packed with personal photos, drawings, and illustrations. Aline Kominsky-Crumb doesn't flinch in her recollections of her wonderfully rich and sometimes dissolute life. Crumb fans will get a thrill at seeing photographs of their old, rambling chateau in a medieval village in France (Le sigh). I paid full retail for this book at Cody's Books in Berkeley, and believe me, it's worth every penny.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Who Doesn't?, May 21, 2007

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Ayun Halliday "Author of No Touch Monkey!" (Beautiful Brooklyn New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Need More Love: A Graphic Memoir (Hardcover)

There's nothing more appealing than when an unapologetic woman lets her big appetite hang out!

It's a thrill to see these stories, some of which have been parceled out to us piecemeal over the years, collected in one volume, with Aline's artwork, photographs, words lending further context and depth. It's so heavy, I'm afraid it'll fall off the shelf and crush me in my sleep! Actually, there are plenty of worse ways to go...

Much as I love her #1 husband's "aht", as far as I'm concerned, Aline's no second banana. She's the whole dang Bunch!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Need more Kominsky Crumb after reading this!, April 15, 2007

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Lucien the Librarian (Toronto) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Need More Love: A Graphic Memoir (Hardcover)

This is a lavishly produced, witty, moving and life-affirming book. As another reviewer has said, despite the grotesque way she usually draws herself, the author is a genuinely beautiful woman in many ways, and her zest for life, despite her miserable upbringing, is infectious. I hope that this book will lead to greater exposure for Kominsky Crumb, and more comics from her, both solo and in collaboration with Robert, Sophie, or the three of them.