![]() ![]() Kominsky-Crumb drew her own character, which she renamed “the Bunch,” having deemed Crumb’s Honeybunch “a cute, cuddly little victim, dumb and passive and compliant,” as she once told fellow cartoonist Peter Bagge. Kominisky and Crumb were married in 1978, a few years after the couple began cocreating the comic Dirty Laundry, about their life together. In 1975, she departed Wimmen’s Comix and with fellow former contributor Diane Noomin launched Twisted Sisters, a one-shot comic that came out in 1976 and would eventually spawn an anthology and a limited series featuring work by many Wimmen’s Comix contributors. Kominsky-Crumb would later cast her relationship with Crumb, whose work elicited accusations of racism and misogyny, as one of the reasons she had a falling-out with Wimmen’s Comix cofounder and contributor Trina Robbins another was her own issues with feminism. The pair began dating and would eventually marry in 1978. Around this time, she was introduced to Robert Crumb, already a giant of underground comics, who frequently drew a character named “Honeybunch Kaminski,” who bore a stunning resemblance to Kominsky herself. In 1972, she fell in with the all-female collective that founded Wimmen’s Comix, and contributed stories to the anthology’s inaugural issues. Having been introduced to underground comics in Tucson by cartoonists Kim Deitch and Spain Rodriguez, she took up the form with alacrity. Following her 1971 graduation from the University of Arizona, where she studied painting, she moved to San Francisco. ![]()
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