{"product_id":"9781770463059","title":"Love That Bunch","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eLove That Bunch\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Aline Kominsky-Crumb\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe early work of the pioneering feminist cartoonist plus her acclaimed new story “Dream House\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAline Kominsky-Crumb immediately made her mark in the Bay Area’s underground comix scene with unabashedly raw, dirty, unfiltered comics chronicling the thoughts and desires of a woman coming of age in the 1960s. Kominsky-Crumb didn’t worry about self-flattery. In fact, her darkest secrets and deepest insecurities were all the more fodder for groundbreaking stories. Her exaggerated comix alter ego, Bunch, is self-destructive and grotesque but crackles with the self-deprecating humor and honesty of a cartoonist confident in the story she wants to tell. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCollecting comics from the 1970s through today, \u003ci\u003eLove That Bunch\u003c\/i\u003e is shockingly prescient while still being an authentic story of its era. Kominsky-Crumb was ahead of her time in juxtaposing the contradictory nature of female sexuality with a proud, complicated feminism. Most important, she does so without apology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the most famous and idiosyncratic cartoonists of our time, Kominsky-Crumb traces her steps from a Beatles-loving fangirl, an East Village groupie, an adult grappling with her childhood, and a 1980s housewife and mother, to a new thirty-page story, “Dream House,” that looks back on her childhood forty years later. \u003ci\u003eLove That Bunch\u003c\/i\u003e will be Kominsky-Crumb’s only solo-authored book in print. Originally published as a book in 1990, this new expanded edition follows her to the present, including an afterword penned by the noted comics scholar Hillary Chute.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003e[There is a] pioneering quality of Ms. Kominsky-Crumb’s own work — nakedly self-revealing and self-obsessed years ahead of the rest of the culture ... her messy self-examinations seem even more relevant today.\"—\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Today the significance of Kominsky-Crumb’s oeuvre — not only to emerging comics artists but also to writers and comedians well outside the comics industry — cannot be overstated… Almost 50 years into her career, Kominsky-Crumb is an underground hero whose enduring influence isn’t quite so underground.\"—\u003ci\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Aline Kominsky-Crumb confronts the crazy, ever-shifting expectations of how women are supposed to be — and blows them to smithereens.\"—\u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This retrospective collection from underground comics legend Aline Kominsky-Crumb is the only book devoted to her work, tracing a path from unpretty youthful bodily explorations to quotidian adventures.”—\u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"One of the best things about Kominsky-Crumb is that she is not only aware of the possibility of her readers’ discomfort—she exploits it... \u003ci\u003eLove That Bunch\u003c\/i\u003e is a bitter, poignant, satisfying epic of how  one Jewish woman survived her Jewish 20th-century family. If I had a  daughter, I would make her read it.”—\u003ci\u003eTablet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eBorrowing unapologetically from life, Kominsky-Crumb draws with a line that is unmistakably her own.\"—\u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Raucous and raunchy… This is a perfect book to give to any woman, of any age, in your life.”—\u003ci\u003eNylon\u003c\/i\u003e’s Best Illustrated Books of 2018\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781770463059\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Drawn and Quarterly","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40688664608974,"sku":"9781770463059","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781770463059","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}