Sophia Violet "Sophie" Crumb is an American-French comics artist.
Background
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 a 2010 interview, Sophie told The Philadelphia Inquirer that her mother was afraid Sophie would "turn into a Valley girl".
Career
In 1991, she relocated with her family to Sauve, a village in Southern France. lieutenant 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.
Politics
Her parents reported that they wanted to remove her from the political conservatives and Christian fundamentalists of the United States.