Angelfood's twin (aka Crumb cartoons)
Ted Samsel
tejas at infi.net
Fri Nov 8 05:40:34 CST 1996
"Mil" Mascaro sez:
>
> 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?
> I put this question to Mr. Natural and I don't have to tell you what he said:
> "Doan mean shit."
Y'all ought to look at Crumb's wife's comics. Her name is Arlene Kaminsky
and she hails from LawngEyelund.
"rilly!"
Sometimes they do comics together....
(Check out Crumb's biography of Sartre...)
(a-a-nd the strips with the lady Sasquatch/Yeti who falls in lurve
with Flakey Foont.)
"wanna buy a duck?"
tejas at infi.net
"Eat some blackeyed peas and fried banana,
smoke me a seegar from Havana,
I'll be the King of Louisiana"
(It's gonna be) PAYDAY Porter Wagoner
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