Kim Deitch

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Kim Deitch
Born	1944
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Artist, Writer
Pseudonym(s)	Fowlton Means
Notable works	The Boulevard of Broken Dreams Alias the Cat!
Awards	Eisner Award, 2003 Inkpot Award, 2008

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Kim Deitch (born 1944) is an American comics artist. He was an important figure in the underground comix movement of the 1960s, regularly contributing comical, psychedelia-tinged comic strips (featuring the flower child "Sunshine Girl" and "The India Rubber Man") to New York City's premier underground newspaper, The East Village Other, beginning in 1967. He became editor of EVO's all-comics spin-off, Gothic Blimp Works, in 1969.

Deitch was also a publisher, as co-founder of the Cartoonists Co-op Press. In 2008, the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art featured a retrospective exhibition of his work.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Bibliography 2.1 Creator series 2.2 Other work 3 Awards 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Biography

Deitch, the son of illustrator and animator Gene Deitch, has sometimes worked with brothers Simon and Seth Deitch.

His best-known character is a mysterious cat named Waldo, who appears variously as a famous cartoon character of the 1930s, as an actual character in the "reality" of the strips, as the demonic reincarnation of Judas Iscariot, and who, occasionally, is claimed to have overcome Deitch and written the comics himself.

Kim Deitch has also worked under the pseudonym Fowlton Means.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Creator series

• Alias the Cat!
• The Stuff of Dreams
• The Boulevard of Broken Dreams
• Beyond the Pale
• All Waldo Comics
• A Shroud for Waldo
• Corn Fed Comics
• The Mishkin File
• No Business Like Show Business
• Shadowland
• Hollywoodland

[edit] Other work

• Apex Treasury of Underground Comics, Links Books, 1974, ISBN 0-8256-30428
• Arcade
• The Best of Bijou Funnies, Quick Fox Books, 1975, ISBN 0-8256-3228-5
• Corporate Crime Comics
• East Village Other
• Gothic Blimp Works
• Heavy Metal (magazine)
• High Times
• Laugh in the Dark
• LA Weekly
• Lean Years
• Mineshaft Magazine
• Pictopia
• Prime Cuts
• Raw
• Swift Comics, Bantam Books, April 1971, (with Artie Spiegelman, Allan Shenker, and Trina Robbins)
• Southern Fried Fugitives
• Tales of Sex and Death
• Webcomic Hurricane Relief Telethon
• Weirdo
• Young Lust
• Zero Zero

[edit] Awards

Deitch won the 2003 Eisner Award for Best Single Issue/Story for The Stuff of Dreams (Fantagraphics). In 2008 he was awarded an Inkpot Award.

[edit] References

• Lambiek.net "Comiclopedia" biography

[edit] External links

• Ford, Jeffrey. "An Interview with Kim Deitch," Fantastic Metropolis (Oct. 9, 2002).
• Heller, Steven. AIGA.com: "Underground Comix Come of Age: An Interview with Kim Deitch" (March 27, 2007).
• Kim Deitch's entry in the Webcomic Hurricane Relief Telethon
• "The Ship That Never Came In!," an animated cartoon based on a Waldo strip that Deitch originally wrote for Pictopia in 1992.