R. Crumb was the celebrated cartoonist of the 1960s psychedelic culture. In the ’70s, he met Aline Kominsky, who was part of the nascent women’s comics movement. They courted, married and became a cartooning couple. Drawn Together (Liveright) brings their cartooning talents together, literally, in the same cartoon panels, and recounts their bizarre relationship in all of its shocking and raunchy details. This is not for the kids — it’s probably not for many adults, either. The volume includes all of the full-color cartoons the Crumbs created for The New Yorker magazine. And R. Crumb confronts his “unreasoning JEW PARANOIA” in the strip titled “Euro Dirty Laundry.” — Mordecai Specktor
(American Jewish World, 2.15.13)
