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...upswing with the appearance of Aline Kominsky Crumb's Need More Love: A Graphic Memoir (MQ Publications; 383 pages; $30). Another in the long line of interesting female artists who get overshadowed and even vilified as a result of being married to a beloved male artist (in this case, Robert Crumb), Kominsky Crumb gets the solo attention she deserves with this new book. Need More Love delivers some of the most endearingly uninhibited comix ever put to paper...
...Around the same time as she begins creating work for "Wimmin's Comix" she meets Robert Crumb, marrying him a few years later. Their atypical marriage, with his open philandering and her taking a permanent lover she calls her "second husband," seems par for the course for a woman determined to escape the banality of "ordinary" American life. In spite of its unconventional nature the Crumb's relationship certainly appears to be a model of support and mutual fulfillment. Can it really be true? While Need More Love reveals all the pain of growing up, either Kominsky Crumb has been...
...drawing on their collaborative works. In many ways her artwork perfectly counterbalances Crumb's. Where he has one of the finest drafting skills of any living cartoonist her "tortured scratching" (her words) makes a mockery of proportion, weight and space. People hate her for it just as people hate Robert Crumb for his outlandish depictions of women and blacks. But just as Crumb's art comes from daring to confront his own prejudices, it takes guts to put your cartoon's next Crumb's, and Kominsky Crumb's artwork has a brutish appeal in her flat, crude style. It suits...
...accident. Last Wednesday, a speeding Fung Wah passenger bus heading from Boston to New York crashed on I-90. The driver, Jimmy Chow, lost control of the vehicle and veered into the right guardrail at Exit 19, near the Allston-Brighton toll booths, according to Massachusetts State Police Sergeant Robert Bousquet. The bus held 35 passengers, none of whom sustained injuries. The disabled bus was towed from the scene, shutting down the Turnpike for five minutes, Bousquet said. A second Fung Wah bus was dispatched soon after to transport the passengers to New York. Fung Wah is popular among students...
Chicago President Robert J. Zimmer, after receiving queries from Students Taking Action Now: Darfur (STAND), said last year that his school had only indirect holdings in Sudan-linked companies, though he has declined to say which companies the university had shares in and through which financial instruments it owned the shares...