Robert Crumb's Dirty Laundry

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Honestly I really enjoyed the art style used in the comics, especially in Dirty Laundry, since the two distinct styles made it erratic and visually stimulating. Honestly, I was not really sure what was going on in the comic, or an over-arching point to the various disconnected stories. In this comic it was a bit harder to see the male chauvinism that Mark Estren emphasizes are in much of Robert Crumb’s work. This is mainly because I am unsure of who is creating the storyline or scenes that could qualify as sexist, since Aline Kominsky proclaims in the beginning of the comic that she “thought up the most depraved panel where he pushes [her] head into the vomit” (2). Additionally, it seems as though Kominsky is not necessarily always objectified,

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