Who was Barbara Rubin, and what is this comic about?

Cornell verifies Rubin’s 1945–1980 dates, her work with Jonas Mekas, Christmas On Earth, her introductions among Ginsberg, Dylan, Warhol, and the Velvet Underground, her move to France, and her death at age 35 after childbirth. The official documentary site verifies her role in the 1960s underground, Christmas on Earth at 18, her conversion and move to France, and her death in 1980 after childbirth. The New York Times Overlooked obituary search result corroborates the death date/context and her importance as the teenage filmmaker behind Christmas on Earth and a connector of Warhol and the Velvet Underground. Her worth is catalytic: she made one of the era’s most confrontational underground films and connected artists whose collisions shaped 1960s culture.

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Page 1 of Barbara Rubin: Barbara Rubin: Underground Spark - Barbara Rubin is introduced as a brief, fierce life whose light changed the New York underground.
Barbara Rubin is introduced as a brief, fierce life whose light changed the New York underground.
Page 2 of Barbara Rubin: Barbara Rubin: Underground Spark - At seventeen she enters Jonas Mekas’s film world and takes up a borrowed 16mm camera.
At seventeen she enters Jonas Mekas’s film world and takes up a borrowed 16mm camera.
Page 3 of Barbara Rubin: Barbara Rubin: Underground Spark - Christmas on Earth becomes a live-wire fusion of film, projection, radio, scandal, and ritual.
Christmas on Earth becomes a live-wire fusion of film, projection, radio, scandal, and ritual.
Page 4 of Barbara Rubin: Barbara Rubin: Underground Spark - Rubin acts as a human switchboard between poets, Dylan, Warhol, and the Velvet Underground.
Rubin acts as a human switchboard between poets, Dylan, Warhol, and the Velvet Underground.
Page 5 of Barbara Rubin: Barbara Rubin: Underground Spark - Spiritual hunger pulls her away from the spotlight toward Hasidic life and private meaning.
Spiritual hunger pulls her away from the spotlight toward Hasidic life and private meaning.
Page 6 of Barbara Rubin: Barbara Rubin: Underground Spark - In France, after childbirth, she dies young while her films and letters remain.
In France, after childbirth, she dies young while her films and letters remain.
Page 7 of Barbara Rubin: Barbara Rubin: Underground Spark - Her legacy is ignition: a short life that rearranged avant-garde history.
Her legacy is ignition: a short life that rearranged avant-garde history.
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