Aline Kominsky-Crumb Obituary

Aline Kominsky-Crumb was an underground comics artist from the United States. Aline Goldsmith was born into a Jewish family on Long Island, New York’s Five Towns.

Kominsky-Crumb’s work is known for its unvarnished, confessional nature, as it is almost entirely autobiographical.

Kominsky-Crumb was also a painter in addition to her work in comics. She shifted her focus from comics to painting after moving to France.

Kominsky-Crumb was the editor of Weirdo, a leading alternative comics anthology at the time, for several years in the 1980s, taking over from Peter Bagge, who had previously taken over from original editor Robert Crumb. Her editorial reign was known as “Twisted Sisters,” which she revived.

Aline Kominsky-Crumb died at her home in France, on November 29, 2022 according to social media reports. She was 74 years old. Although no further information is available, she died after a long illness.

Kominsky-Crumb was named one of twelve women cartoonists deserving of lifetime achievement recognition by Comics Alliance in 2016.