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Love That Bunch by Aline Kominsky-Crumb6/19/2023 The next issue of Montreal Gazette Headline News will soon be in your inbox. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. (“It was an instant soulmate thing,” she recalled.) The couple lived in a state of rural-bohemia poverty that eased in ensuing years as Crumb’s standing in the fine-art world rose to the point where the sale of some of his sketchbooks was sufficient to finance their move to France, where they have lived since 1993.Ī welcome email is on its way. For a time, she was a camp follower of East Village beatnik band The Fugs, before making her way to San Francisco, where she found her first artistic niche among a feminist artists’ collective and met her future husband, the underground comics legend Robert Crumb. Having fled at the earliest opportunity what she calls her “f-ed up upbringing,” the girl self-nicknamed Bunch (chosen partly because “it sounded kind of disgusting”) spent her late teenage years in Lower Manhattan, studying fine art at Cooper Union - “I was paying $35 a month rent!,” she marvelled on the phone from France last week - and generally living the turned-on hippie ethos. Activate your Online Access Now Article content If you are a Home delivery print subscriber, unlimited online access is included in your subscription. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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