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Sep 27, 1981 Woodland, California, United States 42 years old
American-French comic artist
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About Sophie Crumb
- Sophia Violet "Sophie" Crumb (born September 27, 1981) is an American-French comics artist.
- She is the daughter of underground comix artists Robert Crumb and Aline Kominsky-Crumb. Crumb was born in Woodland, California and lived in the nearby farming town of Winters with her parents until she was nine years old.
- In 1991, she relocated with her family to Sauve, a village in Southern France.
- Her parents reported that they wanted to remove her from the political conservatives and Christian fundamentalists of the United States.
- In a 2010 interview, Sophie told The Philadelphia Inquirer that her mother was afraid Sophie would "turn into a Valley girl".It was after this relocation that Terry Zwigoff released Crumb (1994), a critically acclaimed documentary film about Sophie's father and their family.
- Zwigoff later commissioned Sophie to prepare some original drawings for inclusion in his 2001 comedy-drama, Ghost World, an adaptation of Daniel Clowes' comics serial of the same name. After completing her secondary education in France, Crumb studied acrobatics and clowning at a French circus school.
- While living in Brooklyn in the mid-2000s she sold her comics on the street and apprenticed herself to a tattoo artist.
- At another stage she earned a living by teaching English as a foreign language.She lives in Southern France with her husband (a construction worker) and their son, Eli, who was born in 2009.
