What was the reaction when you starting publishing them?ĪKC: I’ve memorized some of the reader responses: “Maybe she’s a good lay, but keep her off the fucking page” and “Let her do the cooking you do the cartooning.” It was a real boys’ club. So to placate her I said ,“Let’s draw a comic together.” She was laid up with a broken foot and was pissed at me because this other girlfriend had come to see me. She had a little trailer and I lived in a cabin next door. RC: In 1972 we were living in the sticks. Crumb, Bigfoot Couple, 2000 © Robert Crumb, 2000, courtesy the artist, Paul Morris, and David Zwirner, New York/London Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Goldie Fanatic Frustation, 1975 Courtesy the artist R.
I never shut up and my work doesn’t either. I was into storytelling, and I saw comics as a medium that I could handle. I studied painting, but it was the 1960s so everything was about Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. Crumb, Self-Loathing Comics #1: A Day in the Life, 1994 © Robert Crumb, 1994, courtesy the artist, Paul Morris, and David Zwirner, New York/LondonĪKC: I started drawing when I was eight. At my then-girlfriend’s apartment, I used to have to wade through a lot of crap. But her house was always very clean, which really impressed me. She was very wild and promiscuous and she drank and took a lot of drugs. She was this New York Jewish hippie girl. Robert Crumb: One thing is that we had great sex and another thing was that she was very funny. Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Virgin Lovin Jew!, 2007 Courtesy the artist I had met some cartoonists who said, “Oh, you’re like Honeybunch Kaminski.” People thought that he must have known me and that the character was based on me, but we had actually never met.
He had done a character named Honeybunch Kaminski. I remember thinking, What a weird guy, but he made an impression. I was wearing a miniskirt and Robert said, “You have really cute knees.” I was taken aback because I thought that I had big muscular legs. Poster for “Aline Kominsky-Crumb & Robert Crumb: Drawn Together,” at Cartoonmuseum Basel, 2016 Courtesy the artistsĪline Kominsky-Crumb: At a party in 1971. Recently the pair took some time to discuss their 45-year relationship, their work as collaborators and life in the French countryside. This month, he shares center stage with his wife, muse and artistic collaborator Aline Kominsky-Crumb in their current exhibition, “Drawn Together,” at Chelsea gallery David Zwirner. Creator of Mister Natural and Fritz the Cat, Robert Crumb is one of the most influential cartoonists of our time (his work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art).
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