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...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...
...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...
...consular corps?but everything else in the area is for the serious boozer or bold, cultural tourist. At the square's straining heart nestles the Texas Lone Staar (sic) Saloon, a favored hangout of grizzled Vietnam vets and supposed former CIA spooks. The bar's tag line, FOOD, WIMMIN, LIKKER, is painted across its windows, though the emphasis is almost exclusively on the latter...
...logger to a booming invisible voice, sounding like a cross between Walter Cronkite and Big Brother, that directs the taming of the wilderness. His minions include a creatively frustrated egghead, a hot-tempered muscleman, a pair of winsome young lovers and all manner of ax-swinging loggers and their "wimmin." Inexplicably absent is Babe the Blue...
Although the three altos lacked a name, they decided to perform Ryan's music in public. After pondering names such as "Hair Club for Women," Ryan christened the group Wild Women and Cinnamon, after a feminist peace group called "Wild Wimmin for Peace" and a song lyric which used the word "cinnamon." Says Ryan, "People don't get the "wild" because we're mellow--Wild Women and Cinnamon on Sedatives would be more appropriate. One of my roommates in protest only calls us Women and Cinnamon. We're like the [Grateful] Dead or the [Rolling] Stones, but our name goes...