Love Among the Crumbs
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Back in the 1990s, the cartoonist Aline Kominsky Crumb and her husband, Robert Crumb — more famously known as R. Crumb to generations of underground comic book fans — launched their own autobiographical compendium. It was a kind of she-said, he-said window into their lives as married working artists as they raised a child and coped with their own neuroses and obsessions, articulated in an often extremely unflattering style.
“Giant egos. Bitterness. Intolerance,” promised the handdrawn script on the cover. The collaboration’s title? “Self-Loathing Comics.”
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