Holy Bunche

With the release of Love That Bunch, this is perhaps the most important part of the work of Aline Kominsky-Crumb, which is finally published in French. Pioneer of American underground and feminist comics, the one who founded the comics Twisted Sisters with Diane Noomin, and who directed the magazine Weirdo at the late 1980s, was the author of a transgressive, profound and innovative that has influenced several generations of creators and artists. his suffocating childhood on Long Island, to a disastrous first marriage with "the ferret", passing through its installation in San Francisco underground of the 1970s, it is with a grating tone and a good dose irony that Aline Kominsky-Crumb puts herself on stage under the name of the "bunche". Her work is resolutely feminist, and nothing escapes the pruning shears of her devastating self-mockery: relationship to the body and physical appearance, roller coaster of libido and self-esteem, sexual violence, unwanted pregnancy, motherhood, dreams, fantasies and guilt, Aline Kominsky-Crumb tells his story bluntly and without taboo. In a vibrant drawing, expressive and grotesque, sometimes close to caricature, parade colorful characters. The boxes are saturated with patterns, the faces appear in close-up, twisting into grimaces and sneers, while the bodies are deformed according to the stories. An extraordinary and jubilant work! Translated by Sophie Crumb, with the help of Jean-Pierre Mercier, this anthology brings together nearly 50 years of confessional and crazy comic strips, 1970s to early 2020s.