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Kominsky-Crumb, Aline
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Aline Kominsky-Crumb, whose work inspired a generation of women cartoonists, died from pancreatic cancer at her home in Sauve, France on November 30. She was 74. Kominsky-Crumb was the wife and collaborator of underground cartoonist Robert Crumb.
Kominsky-Crumb showed early promise as an artist and studied at the Cooper Union in New York. In 1968 she married Carl Kominsky and the pair moved to Arizona, where she enrolled in the University of Arizona, graduating in 1971 with a BFA. Her first comic, Goldie: A Neurotic Woman, appeared in Wimmen¿s Comix #1,
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