Love That Bunch

The early work of the pioneering feminist cartoonist plus her acclaimed new story “Dream House Aline KominskyCrumb immediately made her mark in the Bay Area’s underground comix scene with unabashedly raw dirty unfiltered comics chronicling the thoughts and desires of a woman coming of age in the 1960s. KominskyCrumb didn’t worry about selfflattery. In fact her darkest secrets and deepest insecurities were all the more fodder for groundbreaking stories. Her exaggerated comix alter ego Bunch is selfdestructive and grotesque but crackles with the selfdeprecating humor and honesty of a cartoonist confident in the story she wants to tell. Collecting comics from the 1970s through today Love That Bunch is shockingly prescient while still being an authentic story of its era. KominskyCrumb was ahead of her time in juxtaposing the contradictory nature of female sexuality with a proud complicated feminism. Most important she does so without apology. One of the most famous and idiosyncratic cartoonists of our time KominskyCrumb traces her steps from a Beatlesloving fangirl an East Village groupie an adult grappling with her childhood and a 1980s housewife and mother to a new thirtypage story “Dream House” that looks back on her childhood forty years later. Love That Bunch will be KominskyCrumb’s only soloauthored book in print. Originally published as a book in 1990 this new expanded edition follows her to the present including an afterword penned by the noted comics scholar Hillary Chute.