Kim Deitch

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Kim Deitch
Eisner Award, 2003
Inkpot Award, 2008[1]
Partner(s)Trina Robbins (1969–1970)[2]
Spouse(s)Sally Cruikshank (common-law, 1971–c. 1982)[3]
Pam Butler (m. 1994–present)
Children1 daughter (with Robbins)

Kim Deitch (born May 21, 1944

Los Angeles, California)[5] is an American cartoonist who was an important figure in the underground comix
movement of the 1960s, remaining active in the decades that followed with a variety of books and comics, sometimes using the pseudonym Fowlton Means.

Much of Kim Deitch's work deals with the animation industry and characters from the world of cartoons.

Boulevard of Broken Dreams), as the demonic reincarnation of Judas Iscariot; and who, occasionally, is claimed to have overcome Deitch and written the comics himself. Waldo's appearance is reminiscent of such black cat characters as Felix the Cat, Julius the Cat, and Krazy Kat
.

The son of illustrator and animator Gene Deitch, Kim Deitch has sometimes worked with his brothers Simon Deitch and Seth Deitch.[6]

Biography

Deitch's influences include

merchant marine. Searching for a path, he at one point joined the Republican Party; at another point he became devotee of Hatha yoga.[5]

Deitch regularly contributed comical, psychedelia-tinged comic strips (featuring the flower child "Sunshine Girl" and "Uncle Ed, The India Rubber Man") to New York City's premier underground newspaper, the East Village Other, beginning in 1967. He joined Bhob Stewart as an editor of EVO's all-comics spin-off, Gothic Blimp Works, in 1969. During this period, he lived with fellow cartoonist Spain Rodriguez in a sixth-floor walk-up apartment in New York's East Village.[5]

Deitch was also a publisher, as co-founder of the

Cartoonists Co-Op Press, a publishing venture by Deitch, Jay Lynch, Bill Griffith, Jerry Lane, Willy Murphy, Diane Noomin, and Art Spiegelman
that operated in 1973–1974.

Deitch's

The Boulevard of Broken Dreams was chosen by Time magazine in 2005 as one of the 100 best English-language graphic novels ever written.[7] In 2008, the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art featured a retrospective exhibition of his work.[8]

Personal life

From his first relationship, to cartoonist and author Trina Robbins, Deitch has a daughter, Casey.[9] Through most of the 1970s, Deitch was in an 11-year relationship with animator Sally Cruikshank.[3][4] He met Pam Butler in 1994 and they subsequently married.[9]

Awards

Deitch won the 2003

Ignatz Award for Outstanding Graphic Novel for The Amazing, Enlightening and Absolutely True Adventures of Katherine Whaley.[11]

Bibliography

Creator series and books

Books arranged in order by original published date (publication date shown first, then title, publisher, number of pages, date drawn, and availability). OOP = Out Of Print.[12]

Publications appeared in

Lean Years (1974), a Cartoonists Co-op Press one-shot with cover art by Deitch.
  • Apex Treasury of Underground Comics, Links Books/Quick Fox, 1974,
    ISBN 0-8256-3042-8
  • Arcade
  • Bijou Funnies — issues #2, 3, and 8
  • Corporate Crime Comics
  • East Village Other
  • Gothic Blimp Works
  • Heavy Metal
  • High Times
  • Laugh in the Dark
  • LA Weekly
  • Lean Years
  • Mineshaft Magazine
  • Pictopia
  • Prime Cuts
  • Raw
  • Swift Comics (Bantam Books, April 1971) — with Art Spiegelman, Allan Shenker and Trina Robbins
  • Southern Fried Fugitives
  • Tales of Sex and Death
  • Get Stupid
  • Webcomic Hurricane Relief Telethon
  • Weirdo
  • Young Lust
  • Zero Zero

Animation

References

  1. ^ Inkpot Award
  2. ^ Perkins, Lucas W. "Oral history interview with Kim Deitch, 2007-2009" (Oct. 7, 2007 and June 28, 2009). Archived at Columbia University.
  3. ^ a b Deitch, Kim. "Mad About Music: My Life in Records: Part 10: Cartoon Tunes," The Comics Journal (SEP. 9, 2011).
  4. ^ a b c Bails, Jerry; Hames Ware. "Kim Deitch". Who's Who of American Comic Books 1928-1999. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved November 12, 2013.
  5. ^ a b c Donahue, Don and Susan Goodrick, editors. Deitch bio, The Apex Treasuet of Underground Comics (Apex Novelties, 1974), p. 127.
  6. ^
    Lambiek Comiclopedia. Retrieved on November 12, 2013. Archived
    from the original on September 7, 2013.
  7. ^ Kelly, James; Lev Grossman; Richard Lacayo (October 16, 2005). "Time's List of the 100 Best Novels (1923–2005)". Time.
  8. ^ Beck, Jerry. "Kim Deitch at MoCCA," Cartoon Brew (Sept. 2, 2008).
  9. ^
    ISBN 978-0313397509. {{cite book}}: |first= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link
    )
  10. San Diego Comic-Con International. Archived from the original
    on 2011-04-27. Retrieved 2011-06-09.
  11. ^ Canva, Michael (August 18, 2014). "SMALL PRESS EXPO: Here are your nominees for the 2014 SPX Ignatz Awards…". The Washington Post. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
  12. ^ Fantagraphics list, last page of Smilin' Ed

External links

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