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...Born in Long Island, New York, in 1948, Kominsky Crumb grew up in the type of family she characterizes as "post-war jerk." Kominsky Crumb's rejection of America's "jerk" culture becomes the recurring leitmotif of the book. For her, anything jerk involves "sleaziness, out of control materialism, upward striving, tension, financial problems, selfishness and misery." The early chapters gleefully kick over the rock of the American family. One story, "Wiseguys," for example, details her "loser" father's various bottom-feeding money schemes, including a burglar alarm company whose name, "B.A.R.G." he explained was "grab spelled backwards...
...Kominsky Crumb deals with her mother, called Blabette in the book...
...artist who exclusively explores her own life for her material, Need More Love reveals Kominsky Crumb as one of the pioneers of the "autobio" style of comic making. Need More Love smartly arranges this work in an order that tells her life story, alternating with photos and short texts that knit the pieces together into a full memoir. Smart, funny and seemingly completely open about her life, Kominsky Crumb has assembled the best, most colorful and even juicy personal history of a baby boomer yet seen in this medium...
...this horror show of raging fights, "mother's-little-helpers," and constant humiliation, Kominsky Crumb establishes the sub-themes that will run through her life and art: negative self image, always striving to please others and the need to escape. Subsequent chapters detail the author's early adulthood as the quintessential hippie chick. At 19 she hangs out in New York's Lower East Side and soon becomes pregnant amidst a series of lovers, none of whom she can recall since she was so high all the time. These stories of free love, massive drug and alcohol abuse...
...After giving up the baby for adoption and getting a quickie marriage to get herself out of New York, Kominsky Crumb winds up in San Francisco where she discovers the circle of early women comix artists who would establish "Wimmin's Comix," the pioneering feminist underground comic book. While acknowledging the importance of her meeting this group, her characterization of the core contributors ("a backbiting, nasty group of women") typifies the author's blunt and often surprising revelations in this book...