Aline Kominsky

Biography

Aline Kominsky-Crumb is an American underground comics artist and painter, born in 1948 to a middle-class Jewish family on Long Island. She began her career as a teenager, drawn to the counterculture and eventually meeting Robert Crumb through mutual friends. In the 1980s, she became editor of Weirdo, a leading alternative comics anthology, before shifting focus to painting after moving to France with her husband.