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It’s a tale that Kominsky-Crumb would go on to retell many times in her work. The five-page piece is a sort of dreamlike narration of how Goldie-a stand-in for the author, who draws herself with a big nose and even bigger hips-rediscovers her pride after puberty and an extended period of sleeping around have ruined her self-esteem.

Her first published work, “Goldie” is these days considered the first autobiographical comic created by a woman. In 1972, she contributed a story, “Goldie: A Neurotic Woman,” to the inaugural issue of the groundbreaking underground magazine Wimmen’s Comix. Aline Kominsky-Crumb, for one, has devoted her career to breaking down the expectation of women’s propriety, often with humor. It was maddening, but also comical, to watch the argument rage on, as if the work of some of the best female creators wasn’t a ready-made rebuttal to this myth.