ALINE KOMINSKY-CRUMB & R.CRUMB
2017-01-02Both pioneers of underground and alternative comics, Kominsky-Crumb and Crumb have created a groundbreaking portrait of their shared lives and creative collaborations over the past four decades. In their ongoing “Aline & Bob” comics, the two artists have rendered their innermost thoughts, fears, and fantasies alongside the day-to-day realities of family life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, each in their own distinctive style. The exhibition, a version of which was previously on view at the Cartoonmuseum Basel, will present an extensive selection of collaborative ink drawings from throughout the run of “Aline & Bob,” as well as solo works by both artists in a variety of media.
By the time Kominsky-Crumb and Crumb met in 1972, they had each established themselves as foremost figures in the underground comics scene in San Francisco: Kominsky-Crumb with her autobiographical comics that appeared in the influential all-female anthology Wimmen’s Comix, and Crumb with his genre-defining comic strips of the 1960s and early 1970s like Fritz the Cat, Mr. Natural, and Keep on Truckin’. Indeed, Crumb had, almost clairvoyantly, predicted their union: they were introduced by mutual friends who were inspired by Aline’s resemblance to a Crumb character named “Honeybunch Kaminski.” Not long after they met the two began to draw themselves and each other in joint strips and these collaborative experiments soon became a central creative endeavor for the couple, the results of which were first published in 1974 as Aline and Bob’s Dirty Laundry Comics.
Opposite – Poster for the exhibition
Exhibition runs through to February 18th, 2017
David Zwirner
519, 525 & 533 West 19th Street
New York
NY 10011
