This book is fascinating! I first opened Need More Love in the comic books store on N. Lamar after hearing an interview with the author, Aline Crumb, and her husband, the infamous Robert Crumb, on NPR a few months ago. From the moment I started reading, I couldn't put it down. My boyfriend had to drag me from the bookstore, and I continued stealing sneak peaks during every trip to BookPeople until finally my birthday rolled around and I received (from darling boyfriend) my own copy of the book. That was less than 2 weeks ago and I'm nearly finished. I've slowed down the pace to savor it a bit longer. Consisting of pages of Aline's comics and interspersed with old photographs, paintings, and pages of autobiographical narration, the book is a quick read only if you don't take the time to appreciate the artwork. In addition to her own drawings, the book includes those of her fellow female comic authors as well as those by her husband in the collaborative pieces they drew together. (Interesting their depictions of themselves in these pieces - she draws herself so much bigger than he does his character, as if to represent how much psychic space she fulfills in the relationship - a larger than life character).
More review to come . . .
