Carol Tyler extended her arms as about a dozen filmgoers, some of them sobbing, gathered around to hug the artist and tell her how much her life story meant to them. As viewers embraced her one by one, Tyler says she thought: “This person needs this.”
The emotional scene followed the world premiere of John Kinhart’s documentary “Married to Comics,” which chronicles the intertwined personal and professional lives of Tyler, the lauded 71-year-old comics creator, and her late husband, Justin Green, whose early ’70s work as part of the San Francisco underground comix scene influenced such future legends as R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman, both of whom appear in the film.
