![]() ![]() ![]() Kominsky-Crumb said her creative influences included both German Expressionist art and the late comic Joan Rivers, whose standup routines she admired partly for their self-deprecating nature. “I said, ’I don't know, it seemed natural to me.'” She noted that could only draw on herself in her work, because “it's the only thing I know about.” “People said to me, ‘That is so outrageous, how could you draw yourself sitting on a toilet?'” she said in a 2019 interview. An early cover of the“Twisted Sisters” anthology - on which she collaborated with cartoonist Diane Noomin during her early years in the San Francisco Bay Area - depicted her sitting nearly naked on the toilet, wondering how many calories there were in a cheese enchilada. Kominsky-Crumb was known for work that was not only autobiographical but often bracingly sexual - focusing on her insecurities - and explicit. ![]()
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