Her quavering, thin lines were as intentionally imperfect as the lives she depicted. "Aline's legacy in comics can’t be overstated: She was the first artist to make comics relentlessly examining the private physical and emotional lives of women. Writing for Artforum, comics historian Dan Nadel summed up the importance of her work: She will be dearly missed within that family, and from the international cartooning community, but, especially by Robert, who shared almost the last 50 years of his life with her." Photo collage assembled by Robert Crumb for Fantagraphics' The Complete Crumb Comics Vol. It was her energy that transformed the American Crumb family into a Southern French one, with her daughter Sophie, living, marrying and having three French children there. She had huge amounts of energy which she poured into her artwork, her daughter, her grandchildren and the meals which brought everyone together. "She was the hub of the wheel within her family and community. Because her father died from pancreatic cancer at an early age, Aline always feared it would claim her too, and her fears were ultimately justified. "Aline previously beat her bout with colon cancer–changed her diet, stopped drinking and transformed her body with her intense yoga workouts–but quickly succumbed to pancreatic cancer in the last several months of this year. "We're very saddened that Aline Kominsky-Crumb, cartoonist, mother and Robert's wife for almost 50 years, has passed away at 74 years old," wrote Peter Poplaski and Rika Deryckere, artist friends of the Crumb family, in an email announcing the news. Image by Robert Crumb, courtesy of the Official Robert Crumb Website,. Legendary underground cartoonist Aline Kominsky-Crumb, whose self-deprecating and wickedly funny autobiographical comics often focused on the lives of herself and her husband, Robert Crumb, died on November 29th at their home in France from pancreatic cancer. She was 74. George (Speck) Crum died in Malta, New York on Jat the age of 90.John Kelly | DecemPhoto by Lora Fountain. They married in 1860 and remained a couple until her death in 1906. He met his second wife, Hester Esther Bennett, who was a regular customer at Crum’s Place. Nonetheless, Crum’s Place was open until 1890, when he retired from the restaurant business.Ĭrum married Elizabeth Jarrett in 1853 and the couple had three sons, John, Gilbert, and William, and a daughter, Anne. Lay’s mass production and worldwide distribution of potato chips soon overshadowed Crum’s legacy. Crum’s chip remained a delicacy for the elite until the 1920s when entrepreneur Herman Lay brought the chips to the South to introduce them to a wider audience. In 1860, George Crum opened his own restaurant, Crum’s Place, in Malta, New York, where he provided every table with a basket of chips. After an unsuccessful attempt to take credit for inventing the Saratoga chip, Cary Moon, the owner of Moon’s Lake House, began selling them in boxes, the first attempt to merchandise the product beyond his restaurant. Wealthy visitors to Moon’s restaurant soon spread the word about the Saratoga chips, often traveling from Boston and New York specifically for the delicacy. There is no doubt, however, that Crum’s promotion of the chip help popularize it. Even her claim is undermined by the existence of cookbooks in the United States and Great Britain that described earlier versions of the chips that were called fried potato shavings. George Crum tasted the sliced potato and gave his enthusiastic approval of the chip. She said she sliced off a sliver of potato and it fell into a hot frying pan by accident. The popular narrative is that George Crum invented the potato chip, a myth eventually debunked by his sister Kate Speck who claimed she invented what would soon be known as the famous Saratoga chips. One regular patron, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, regularly forgot Speck’s last name and called him “Crum.” Vanderbilt relayed personal food requests to “Crum” through the waiters and Speck eventually embraced the name, saying that”a crum is larger than a speck.” In 1853, 29-year-old Speck was hired by Moon’s Lake House, an Adirondack resort on Saratoga Lake near Saratoga Springs that catered to wealthy vacationers from New York City. He was an animal trapper specializing in capturing wild ducks and deer. George Speck spent his youth as a guide in New York’s Adirondack Mountains from 1834 to 1850. Both George and Kate Speck identified as members of the St. George Speck, later known as George Crum and long thought to be the inventor of the potato chip, was born on Jin Saratoga Country, New York to parents Abraham Speck, an African American, and Diana Tull, a Native American of the Huron Tribe.
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