Inspired by their work, Kominsky-Crumb moved to San Francisco, where she met Robert Crumb in 1972. Kominsky-Crumb - perhaps best known for her work alongside husband Robert Crumb, with whom she created the Dirty Laundry series, as well as editing and contributing to Weirdo, the anthology of alternative comics that Crumb had founded years earlier - was born in Long Island, New York, where she became part of the counterculture movement as a teenager it was through her connection to Ken Weaver, former drummer of the band the Fugs, that she was introduced to cartoonists Spain Rodriguez and Kim Deitch, part of the nascent underground scene in the early '70s. Aline Kominsky-Crumb, one of the leading lights of the underground comics scene and contributor to iconic anthologies including Wimmen’s Comix, Weirdo, and Twisted Sisters, which she helped launch in 1976, has died aged 74, it has been announced.
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