Aline Kominsky-Crumb RIP
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I was determined that some stupid habit of mine was NOT going to keep me from earning a living. So I ceased all recreational drugs except alcohol at that moment. Alcohol consumption was stopped a year or so later.
I have always enjoyed detailed and well executed graphics. I once consumed them voraciously as a past time. During this era in my life I became a big fan of Robert Crumb and his wife Aline. They were wed in 1978 while I was still active duty Navy. I termed them as "underground" or "alternative" media artists. That realism they imparted to their pages was astounding.
As you might guess, Robert Crumb is a difficult man to get to know — much less fully understand — but such is the nature of extreme talents. He migrated to France with his family to live in a house in a medevial village after trading a couple of notebooks of his work for the property.
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Aline Kominsky Goldsmith Crumb was born in Long Beach, New York on August 1, 1948 and passed this earthly existence last Thursday on November 29, 2022 at her home in Sauve, Gard, France. She was 74 years of age. I always had the impression that she and her husband were soulmates.
I also found Aline Crumb to be more personable and interactive than Robert but both of these people are very special to my existence for those aspects of their work I was privileged to admire — however from afar it all was.
Mrs Crumb leaves her husband and a child named Sophie Crumb who has followed in her parents illustrious footsteps. She and her half brother from a previous relationship of Roberts exhibit prodigious graphic art talent.
Rest in peace.