(JTA) — Robert Crumb put the “x” in comix by setting to paper his basest sexual longings, including strong-legged Jewish women who were cowgirls and who went by the name Honeybunch Kaminski. So when ...

Aline Kominsky-Crumb, who in the early 1970s used a self-deprecating and sexualized confessional style to create what is believed to be the first autobiographical work by a woman in underground comics ...

Robert Crumb is to comics what Louis Armsrong is to jazz, a revolutionary who pulled a maligned and misunderstood art form out of the shadows. In the forward to his new biography, “Crumb: A Cartoonist ...

Underground comic book artist Robert Crumb created ZAP COMIX and is the artist behind such 1960s and 1970s icons as Mr. Natural, Fritz the Cat, and Keep-on-Truckin. His wife, Aline Kominsky Crumb, was ...

Joshua Dystart tweeted yesterday "Underground cartoonist Aline Kominsky-Crumb has passed away. She was 74 years old. She did not give a f-ck in all the best ways." And she really didn't. Alternative ...

Last year an undercover policeman from the Morals Squad walked into the New Yorker Bookshop on West 89th Street and asked for a copy of R. Crumb’s Zap comics, number four. Charles Kirkpatrick, the ...

Yesterday, I reported that, for the first time, Forbidden Planet comic book stores would be launching a curbside service as England went into lockdown. So that customers could call up stores, reserve ...

A thrillingly revisionist history of the era at the Whitney Museum uncovers a current of art that sprang from eros and the uncensored minds of R. Crumb, Martha Edelheit and others. By Deborah Solomon ...

Jul. 22—The most surprising thing in comic books way back in 2009 wasn't a superhero returning from the dead, or the latest Marvel or DC mega-crossover. The most surprising comic book/graphic novel ...

Her autobiographical cartoons — confessional, sexualized and self-deprecating — were considered the first by a woman in underground comics. By Richard Sandomir Aline Kominsky-Crumb, who in the early ...