Angelfood's twin (aka Crumb cartoons)

[Andrew Dinn]

MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu writes:

> Ted's evocation of some warmly remembered Crumb characters prompts
> me, a little timidly, to ask what the Angelfood
> McSpade/cultural-conventions-of-beauty conversation (not all of
> which was I able to read, unfortunately, so maybe somebody pointed
> this out already) would have gone like if it considered Angelfood's
> white counterpart (and a personal fave), a woman also possessing
> *those* Siegelian buttocks, and a propensity to end up on the wrong
> end of something nasty.  Yes, let's hear it for HONEYBUNCH
> KOMINSKY!!!! (And what does her physiognomical resemblence to
> Angelfood mean?  That Crumb is a really subtle artist? a limited
> draughtsman? a sexist lout?

Might also be good to throw in `Lenore Goldberg, Feminist Avenger' who
appears to be Crumb's kick-ass fantasy of his wife Dana. 


Andrew Dinn
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