She will be dearly missed within that family, and from the international cartooning community, but, especially by Robert, who shared almost the last 50 years of his life with her.' Photo collage assembled by Robert Crumb for Fantagraphics' The Complete Crumb Comics Vol. It was her energy that transformed the American Crumb family into a Southern French one, with her daughter Sophie, living, marrying and having three French children there. She had huge amounts of energy which she poured into her artwork, her daughter, her grandchildren and the meals which brought everyone together. 'She was the hub of the wheel within her family and community. Because her father died from pancreatic cancer at an early age, Aline always feared it would claim her too, and her fears were ultimately justified.

'Aline previously beat her bout with colon cancer–changed her diet, stopped drinking and transformed her body with her intense yoga workouts–but quickly succumbed to pancreatic cancer in the last several months of this year. 'We're very saddened that Aline Kominsky-Crumb, cartoonist, mother and Robert's wife for almost 50 years, has passed away at 74 years old,' wrote Peter Poplaski and Rika Deryckere, artist friends of the Crumb family, in an email announcing the news. Image by Robert Crumb, courtesy of the Official Robert Crumb Website,. Legendary underground cartoonist Aline Kominsky-Crumb, whose self-deprecating and wickedly funny autobiographical comics often focused on the lives of herself and her husband, Robert Crumb, died on November 29th at their home in France from pancreatic cancer. She was 74. John Kelly | DecemPhoto by Lora Fountain.

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