Heritage this week!!! -- rare KOMINSKY-CRUMB full story 1 1

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Fellow boardies... I'm late to the party on getting this posted for a friend of mine (friend of mine? friend of ours? Hmmm... Gotta rewatch Donnie Brasco.)

He's got this really rare full Aline Kominsky-Brumb story, see? It's at Heritage, see? It's got some crazy-ash stories about New York mobsters in the 60s and youse needs to buy it, see? (James Cagney creeping in a little, now. Apologies.)

https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/complete-story/aline-kominsky-crumb-twisted-sisters-4-complete-10-page-story-wiseguys-original-art-kitc/a/7340-93127.s?type=DA-DMC-ComicArtTracker-Comics-7340-06222023#

Anyway, here's the hoity-toity Heritage write-up. That guy Hignite sure is class --

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Aline Kominsky-Crumb Twisted Sisters #4 Complete 10-Page Story "Wiseguys" Original Art (Kitchen Sink Press, 1994). Here is a full-length classic benchmark of the feminist movement in Underground Comix -- and a triumph of confessional autobiography -- from one of the most uniquely accomplished cartoon storytellers ever to put pen to paper. Aline Kominsky-Crumb (1948-2022) remains among the potent influences in an Underground Comix scene that is, of course, dominated by the artistry of her widower, the writer-artist Robert Crumb.

Like Crumb himself and comparatively few other such colleagues, Aline bucked the 1970s-1980s' implosion of the original Underground market to continue generating new art as a self-renewing font of defiant creativity. Inspired in part by the self-revealing intimacy of fellow Undergrounder Justin Green's Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary (1972), Kominsky-Crumb began during the 1970s to portray herself in confrontational situations, often focusing upon a childhood in close quarters with an abrasive mother and a shady-dealing father. In the present selection, Kominsky-Crumb lays bare her father's deeper Mob ties, drawing parallels between his secretive career and actual places and personalities depicted or suggested in such films as Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas (1990) and Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972).

R. Crumb appears as a supporting character in Aline's present-day narrative. Twisted Sisters, a collaborative book established by Kominsky-Crumb and fellow artist Diane Noomin, represented their rejection of the original Wimmen's Comix collective, which in Aline's opinion had proved more politically charged than humor-driven. (Aline considered humor to be a necessary element of serious artistry.) "Wiseguys" is an essential example of the Twisted Sisters project -- frank and unnerving, with undercurrents of wit and poignancy in about equal measure.

It is rare to find a Kominsky-Crumb original, and much more so to find so expansive a job of work in such well-preserved condition. The story comprises ink over graphite on Bristol board with an image area of 10" x 13", matted out to 16" x 20". Excellent condition throughout, with scattered small spots of ink-blurring or retouching.

 

Seriously, you don't see these things -- like, ever. Plus, it's freakin' hysterical.