Kim Deitch
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Kim Deitch 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 an editor of EVO's all-comics spin-off, Gothic Blimp Works
, in 1969. He is also an important figure in the current alternative comics
movement which evolved from the underground comix movement.
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.
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, and he also did some Nickelodeon IDs with Jerry Liberman in the late-1980s.
and 2010 book collection) The Stuff of Dreams (collected in 2007 as Alias the Cat!
) The Boulevard of Broken Dreams
(story and book collection) Beyond the Pale (book collection) All Waldo Comics (book collection) A Shroud for Waldo (strip and book collection) Corn Fed Comics The Mishkin File No Business Like Show Business Shadowland (series and book collection) Hollywoodland (series)
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
for Best Single Issue/Story for The Stuff of Dreams (Fantagraphics) and in 2008 he was awarded an Inkpot Award
.
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 an editor of EVO's all-comics spin-off, Gothic Blimp Works
, in 1969. He is also an important figure in the current alternative comics
movement which evolved from the underground comix movement.
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.
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, and he also did some Nickelodeon IDs with Jerry Liberman in the late-1980s.
and 2010 book collection) The Stuff of Dreams (collected in 2007 as Alias the Cat!
) The Boulevard of Broken Dreams
(story and book collection) Beyond the Pale (book collection) All Waldo Comics (book collection) A Shroud for Waldo (strip and book collection) Corn Fed Comics The Mishkin File No Business Like Show Business Shadowland (series and book collection) Hollywoodland (series)
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
for Best Single Issue/Story for The Stuff of Dreams (Fantagraphics) and in 2008 he was awarded an Inkpot Award
.
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 an editor of EVO's all-comics spin-off, Gothic Blimp Works
, in 1969. He is also an important figure in the current alternative comics
movement which evolved from the underground comix movement.
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.
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, and he also did some Nickelodeon IDs with Jerry Liberman in the late-1980s.
and 2010 book collection) The Stuff of Dreams (collected in 2007 as Alias the Cat!
) The Boulevard of Broken Dreams
(story and book collection) Beyond the Pale (book collection) All Waldo Comics (book collection) A Shroud for Waldo (strip and book collection) Corn Fed Comics The Mishkin File No Business Like Show Business Shadowland (series and book collection) Hollywoodland (series)
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
for Best Single Issue/Story for The Stuff of Dreams (Fantagraphics) and in 2008 he was awarded an Inkpot Award
.
: "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.
People of the United States
The people of the United States, also known as simply Americans or American people, are the inhabitants or citizens of the United States. The United States is a multi-ethnic nation, home to people of different ethnic and national backgrounds...
comics artist
Comics artist
A comics artist is an artist working within the comics medium on comic strips, comic books or graphic novels. The term may refer to any number of artists who contribute to produce a work in the comics form, from those who oversee all aspects of the work to those who contribute only a part.-Comic...
. He was an important figure in the underground comix
Underground comix
Underground comix are small press or self-published comic books which are often socially relevant or satirical in nature. They differ from mainstream comics in depicting content forbidden to mainstream publications by the Comics Code Authority, including explicit drug use, sexuality and violence...
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
East Village Other
The East Village Other , was an American underground newspaper in New York City, New York, published biweekly during the 1960s. EVO was among the first countercultural newspapers to emerge, following the Los Angeles Free Press, which had begun publishing a few months earlier...
, beginning in 1967. He became an editor of EVO's all-comics spin-off, Gothic Blimp Works
Gothic Blimp Works
Gothic Blimp Works, an all-comics tabloid published in 1969 by Peter Leggieri and the East Village Other, was billed as "the first Sunday underground comic paper". During its eight-issue run, the publication displayed comics in both color and black-and-white...
, in 1969. He is also an important figure in the current alternative comics
Alternative comics
Alternative comics defines a range of American comics that have appeared since the 1980s, following the underground comix movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Alternative comics present an alternative to "mainstream" superhero comics which in the past have dominated the US comic book industry...
movement which evolved from the underground comix movement.
Deitch was also a publisher, as co-founder of the Cartoonists Co-op Press. In 2008, the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art
Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art
The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art is an American not-for-profit arts organization devoted to the production and history of comic books, comic strips and other forms of cartoon art. Located at 594 Broadway in New York City, MoCCA was founded by Lawrence Klein in October 2001.In 2007, MoCCA hired...
featured a retrospective exhibition of his work.
Biography
Deitch, the son of illustrator and animatorAnimator
An animator is an artist who creates multiple images that give an illusion of movement called animation when displayed in rapid sequence; the images are called frames and key frames. Animators can work in a variety of fields including film, television, video games, and the internet. Usually, an...
Gene Deitch
Gene Deitch
Eugene Merril "Gene" Deitch is an American illustrator, animator and film director. He has been based in Prague, capital of Czechoslovakia and the present-day Czech Republic, since 1959. Since 1968, Deitch has been the leading animation director for the Connecticut organization Weston...
, 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
Judas Iscariot
Judas Iscariot was, according to the New Testament, one of the twelve disciples of Jesus. He is best known for his betrayal of Jesus to the hands of the chief priests for 30 pieces of silver.-Etymology:...
, and who, occasionally, is claimed to have overcome Deitch and written the comics himself.
Kim Deitch has also worked under the pseudonym
Pseudonym
A pseudonym is a name that a person assumes for a particular purpose and that differs from his or her original orthonym...
Fowlton Means, and he also did some Nickelodeon IDs with Jerry Liberman in the late-1980s.
Creator
Zero Zero
Zero Zero is a synth band, formed out of the New Jersey punk band Lifetime by Lifetime members Dave Palaitis-guitar & vocals , Ari Katz-vocals & drums, and Katz's wife Tannis Kristjanson -vocals & keyboards...
and 2010 book collection) The Stuff of Dreams (collected in 2007 as Alias the Cat!
Alias the Cat!
Alias the Cat is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Kim Deitch, published by Pantheon Books in 2007. It originally appeared as a three-issue comic book in 2002 as The Stuff of Dreams from Fantagraphics Books....
) The Boulevard of Broken Dreams
The Boulevard of Broken Dreams (comics)
The Boulevard of Broken Dreams, is a 2002 graphic novel by Kim Deitch. In 2005, Time chose it as one of the 100 best English language, graphic novels ever written.-Publication history:...
(story and book collection) Beyond the Pale (book collection) All Waldo Comics (book collection) A Shroud for Waldo (strip and book collection) Corn Fed Comics The Mishkin File No Business Like Show Business Shadowland (series and book collection) Hollywoodland (series)
Publications appeared in
Arcade (magazine)
Arcade: The Comics Revue was a magazine-sized comics anthology created and edited by Art Spiegelman and Bill Griffith to showcase the work of underground artists. Published by the Print Mint, it ran for seven issues between 1975 to 1976...
The Best of Bijou Funnies, Quick Fox Books, 1975, ISBN 0-8256-3228-5 Corporate Crime Comics East Village Other
East Village Other
The East Village Other , was an American underground newspaper in New York City, New York, published biweekly during the 1960s. EVO was among the first countercultural newspapers to emerge, following the Los Angeles Free Press, which had begun publishing a few months earlier...
Gothic Blimp Works
Gothic Blimp Works
Gothic Blimp Works, an all-comics tabloid published in 1969 by Peter Leggieri and the East Village Other, was billed as "the first Sunday underground comic paper". During its eight-issue run, the publication displayed comics in both color and black-and-white...
Heavy Metal (magazine)
Heavy Metal (magazine)
Heavy Metal is an American science fiction and fantasy comics magazine, known primarily for its blend of dark fantasy/science fiction and erotica. In the mid-1970s, while publisher Leonard Mogel was in Paris to jump-start the French edition of National Lampoon, he discovered the French...
High Times Laugh in the Dark LA Weekly
LA Weekly
LA Weekly is a free weekly tabloid-sized "alternative weekly" in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1978 by Editor/Publisher Jay Levin and a board of directors that included actor-producer Michael Douglas...
Mineshaft Magazine
Mineshaft is an independent international art magazine launched in 1999 by Everett Rand and Gioia Palmieri in Guilford, Vermont. Initially focusing on poetry and literature, the magazine began to publish comics after Robert Crumb became a contributor in 2000...
RAW (magazine)
RAW was a comics anthology edited by Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly and published by Mouly from 1980 to 1991. It was a flagship publication of the 1980s alternative comics movement, serving as a more intellectual counterpoint to Robert Crumb's visceral Weirdo, which followed squarely in the...
Art Spiegelman
Art Spiegelman is an American comics artist, editor, and advocate for the medium of comics, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic book memoir, Maus. His works are published with his name in lowercase: art spiegelman.-Biography:Spiegelman was born in Stockholm, Sweden, to Polish Jews...
, Allan Shenker, and Trina Robbins
Trina Robbins
Trina Robbins is an American comics artist and writer. She was an early and influential participant in the underground comix movement, and one of the few female artists in underground comix when she started. Both as a cartoonist and historian, Robbins has long been involved in creating outlets for...
)
Animation
- Top of The Hour, NickelodeonNickelodeon (TV channel)Nickelodeon, often simply called Nick and originally named Pinwheel, is an American children's channel owned by MTV Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom International. The channel is primarily aimed at children ages 7–17, with the exception of their weekday morning program block aimed at preschoolers...
, 1985 - Easy Groove ID, NickelodeonNickelodeon (TV channel)Nickelodeon, often simply called Nick and originally named Pinwheel, is an American children's channel owned by MTV Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom International. The channel is primarily aimed at children ages 7–17, with the exception of their weekday morning program block aimed at preschoolers...
, 1987
Awards
Deitch won the 2003 Eisner AwardEisner Award
The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, commonly shortened to the Eisner Awards, and sometimes referred to as the Oscar Awards of the Comics Industry, are prizes given for creative achievement in American comic books. The Eisner Awards were first conferred in 1988, created in response to the...
for Best Single Issue/Story for The Stuff of Dreams (Fantagraphics) and in 2008 he was awarded an Inkpot Award
Inkpot Award
The Inkpot Award, bestowed annually since 1974 by Comic-Con International, is given to some of the professionals in comic book, comic strip, animation, science fiction, and related pop-culture fields, who are guests of that organization's yearly multigenre fan convention, commonly known as...
.
Kim Deitch (born 1944) is an American
People of the United States
The people of the United States, also known as simply Americans or American people, are the inhabitants or citizens of the United States. The United States is a multi-ethnic nation, home to people of different ethnic and national backgrounds...
comics artist
Comics artist
A comics artist is an artist working within the comics medium on comic strips, comic books or graphic novels. The term may refer to any number of artists who contribute to produce a work in the comics form, from those who oversee all aspects of the work to those who contribute only a part.-Comic...
. He was an important figure in the underground comix
Underground comix
Underground comix are small press or self-published comic books which are often socially relevant or satirical in nature. They differ from mainstream comics in depicting content forbidden to mainstream publications by the Comics Code Authority, including explicit drug use, sexuality and violence...
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
East Village Other
The East Village Other , was an American underground newspaper in New York City, New York, published biweekly during the 1960s. EVO was among the first countercultural newspapers to emerge, following the Los Angeles Free Press, which had begun publishing a few months earlier...
, beginning in 1967. He became an editor of EVO's all-comics spin-off, Gothic Blimp Works
Gothic Blimp Works
Gothic Blimp Works, an all-comics tabloid published in 1969 by Peter Leggieri and the East Village Other, was billed as "the first Sunday underground comic paper". During its eight-issue run, the publication displayed comics in both color and black-and-white...
, in 1969. He is also an important figure in the current alternative comics
Alternative comics
Alternative comics defines a range of American comics that have appeared since the 1980s, following the underground comix movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Alternative comics present an alternative to "mainstream" superhero comics which in the past have dominated the US comic book industry...
movement which evolved from the underground comix movement.
Deitch was also a publisher, as co-founder of the Cartoonists Co-op Press. In 2008, the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art
Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art
The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art is an American not-for-profit arts organization devoted to the production and history of comic books, comic strips and other forms of cartoon art. Located at 594 Broadway in New York City, MoCCA was founded by Lawrence Klein in October 2001.In 2007, MoCCA hired...
featured a retrospective exhibition of his work.
Biography
Deitch, the son of illustrator and animatorAnimator
An animator is an artist who creates multiple images that give an illusion of movement called animation when displayed in rapid sequence; the images are called frames and key frames. Animators can work in a variety of fields including film, television, video games, and the internet. Usually, an...
Gene Deitch
Gene Deitch
Eugene Merril "Gene" Deitch is an American illustrator, animator and film director. He has been based in Prague, capital of Czechoslovakia and the present-day Czech Republic, since 1959. Since 1968, Deitch has been the leading animation director for the Connecticut organization Weston...
, 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
Judas Iscariot
Judas Iscariot was, according to the New Testament, one of the twelve disciples of Jesus. He is best known for his betrayal of Jesus to the hands of the chief priests for 30 pieces of silver.-Etymology:...
, and who, occasionally, is claimed to have overcome Deitch and written the comics himself.
Kim Deitch has also worked under the pseudonym
Pseudonym
A pseudonym is a name that a person assumes for a particular purpose and that differs from his or her original orthonym...
Fowlton Means, and he also did some Nickelodeon IDs with Jerry Liberman in the late-1980s.
Creator
Zero Zero
Zero Zero is a synth band, formed out of the New Jersey punk band Lifetime by Lifetime members Dave Palaitis-guitar & vocals , Ari Katz-vocals & drums, and Katz's wife Tannis Kristjanson -vocals & keyboards...
and 2010 book collection) The Stuff of Dreams (collected in 2007 as Alias the Cat!
Alias the Cat!
Alias the Cat is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Kim Deitch, published by Pantheon Books in 2007. It originally appeared as a three-issue comic book in 2002 as The Stuff of Dreams from Fantagraphics Books....
) The Boulevard of Broken Dreams
The Boulevard of Broken Dreams (comics)
The Boulevard of Broken Dreams, is a 2002 graphic novel by Kim Deitch. In 2005, Time chose it as one of the 100 best English language, graphic novels ever written.-Publication history:...
(story and book collection) Beyond the Pale (book collection) All Waldo Comics (book collection) A Shroud for Waldo (strip and book collection) Corn Fed Comics The Mishkin File No Business Like Show Business Shadowland (series and book collection) Hollywoodland (series)
Publications appeared in
Arcade (magazine)
Arcade: The Comics Revue was a magazine-sized comics anthology created and edited by Art Spiegelman and Bill Griffith to showcase the work of underground artists. Published by the Print Mint, it ran for seven issues between 1975 to 1976...
The Best of Bijou Funnies, Quick Fox Books, 1975, ISBN 0-8256-3228-5 Corporate Crime Comics East Village Other
East Village Other
The East Village Other , was an American underground newspaper in New York City, New York, published biweekly during the 1960s. EVO was among the first countercultural newspapers to emerge, following the Los Angeles Free Press, which had begun publishing a few months earlier...
Gothic Blimp Works
Gothic Blimp Works
Gothic Blimp Works, an all-comics tabloid published in 1969 by Peter Leggieri and the East Village Other, was billed as "the first Sunday underground comic paper". During its eight-issue run, the publication displayed comics in both color and black-and-white...
Heavy Metal (magazine)
Heavy Metal (magazine)
Heavy Metal is an American science fiction and fantasy comics magazine, known primarily for its blend of dark fantasy/science fiction and erotica. In the mid-1970s, while publisher Leonard Mogel was in Paris to jump-start the French edition of National Lampoon, he discovered the French...
High Times Laugh in the Dark LA Weekly
LA Weekly
LA Weekly is a free weekly tabloid-sized "alternative weekly" in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1978 by Editor/Publisher Jay Levin and a board of directors that included actor-producer Michael Douglas...
Mineshaft Magazine
Mineshaft is an independent international art magazine launched in 1999 by Everett Rand and Gioia Palmieri in Guilford, Vermont. Initially focusing on poetry and literature, the magazine began to publish comics after Robert Crumb became a contributor in 2000...
RAW (magazine)
RAW was a comics anthology edited by Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly and published by Mouly from 1980 to 1991. It was a flagship publication of the 1980s alternative comics movement, serving as a more intellectual counterpoint to Robert Crumb's visceral Weirdo, which followed squarely in the...
Art Spiegelman
Art Spiegelman is an American comics artist, editor, and advocate for the medium of comics, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic book memoir, Maus. His works are published with his name in lowercase: art spiegelman.-Biography:Spiegelman was born in Stockholm, Sweden, to Polish Jews...
, Allan Shenker, and Trina Robbins
Trina Robbins
Trina Robbins is an American comics artist and writer. She was an early and influential participant in the underground comix movement, and one of the few female artists in underground comix when she started. Both as a cartoonist and historian, Robbins has long been involved in creating outlets for...
)
Animation
- Top of The Hour, NickelodeonNickelodeon (TV channel)Nickelodeon, often simply called Nick and originally named Pinwheel, is an American children's channel owned by MTV Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom International. The channel is primarily aimed at children ages 7–17, with the exception of their weekday morning program block aimed at preschoolers...
, 1985 - Easy Groove ID, NickelodeonNickelodeon (TV channel)Nickelodeon, often simply called Nick and originally named Pinwheel, is an American children's channel owned by MTV Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom International. The channel is primarily aimed at children ages 7–17, with the exception of their weekday morning program block aimed at preschoolers...
, 1987
Awards
Deitch won the 2003 Eisner AwardEisner Award
The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, commonly shortened to the Eisner Awards, and sometimes referred to as the Oscar Awards of the Comics Industry, are prizes given for creative achievement in American comic books. The Eisner Awards were first conferred in 1988, created in response to the...
for Best Single Issue/Story for The Stuff of Dreams (Fantagraphics) and in 2008 he was awarded an Inkpot Award
Inkpot Award
The Inkpot Award, bestowed annually since 1974 by Comic-Con International, is given to some of the professionals in comic book, comic strip, animation, science fiction, and related pop-culture fields, who are guests of that organization's yearly multigenre fan convention, commonly known as...
.
Kim Deitch (born 1944) is an American
People of the United States
The people of the United States, also known as simply Americans or American people, are the inhabitants or citizens of the United States. The United States is a multi-ethnic nation, home to people of different ethnic and national backgrounds...
comics artist
Comics artist
A comics artist is an artist working within the comics medium on comic strips, comic books or graphic novels. The term may refer to any number of artists who contribute to produce a work in the comics form, from those who oversee all aspects of the work to those who contribute only a part.-Comic...
. He was an important figure in the underground comix
Underground comix
Underground comix are small press or self-published comic books which are often socially relevant or satirical in nature. They differ from mainstream comics in depicting content forbidden to mainstream publications by the Comics Code Authority, including explicit drug use, sexuality and violence...
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
East Village Other
The East Village Other , was an American underground newspaper in New York City, New York, published biweekly during the 1960s. EVO was among the first countercultural newspapers to emerge, following the Los Angeles Free Press, which had begun publishing a few months earlier...
, beginning in 1967. He became an editor of EVO's all-comics spin-off, Gothic Blimp Works
Gothic Blimp Works
Gothic Blimp Works, an all-comics tabloid published in 1969 by Peter Leggieri and the East Village Other, was billed as "the first Sunday underground comic paper". During its eight-issue run, the publication displayed comics in both color and black-and-white...
, in 1969. He is also an important figure in the current alternative comics
Alternative comics
Alternative comics defines a range of American comics that have appeared since the 1980s, following the underground comix movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Alternative comics present an alternative to "mainstream" superhero comics which in the past have dominated the US comic book industry...
movement which evolved from the underground comix movement.
Deitch was also a publisher, as co-founder of the Cartoonists Co-op Press. In 2008, the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art
Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art
The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art is an American not-for-profit arts organization devoted to the production and history of comic books, comic strips and other forms of cartoon art. Located at 594 Broadway in New York City, MoCCA was founded by Lawrence Klein in October 2001.In 2007, MoCCA hired...
featured a retrospective exhibition of his work.
Biography
Deitch, the son of illustrator and animatorAnimator
An animator is an artist who creates multiple images that give an illusion of movement called animation when displayed in rapid sequence; the images are called frames and key frames. Animators can work in a variety of fields including film, television, video games, and the internet. Usually, an...
Gene Deitch
Gene Deitch
Eugene Merril "Gene" Deitch is an American illustrator, animator and film director. He has been based in Prague, capital of Czechoslovakia and the present-day Czech Republic, since 1959. Since 1968, Deitch has been the leading animation director for the Connecticut organization Weston...
, 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
Judas Iscariot
Judas Iscariot was, according to the New Testament, one of the twelve disciples of Jesus. He is best known for his betrayal of Jesus to the hands of the chief priests for 30 pieces of silver.-Etymology:...
, and who, occasionally, is claimed to have overcome Deitch and written the comics himself.
Kim Deitch has also worked under the pseudonym
Pseudonym
A pseudonym is a name that a person assumes for a particular purpose and that differs from his or her original orthonym...
Fowlton Means, and he also did some Nickelodeon IDs with Jerry Liberman in the late-1980s.
Creator
Zero Zero
Zero Zero is a synth band, formed out of the New Jersey punk band Lifetime by Lifetime members Dave Palaitis-guitar & vocals , Ari Katz-vocals & drums, and Katz's wife Tannis Kristjanson -vocals & keyboards...
and 2010 book collection) The Stuff of Dreams (collected in 2007 as Alias the Cat!
Alias the Cat!
Alias the Cat is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Kim Deitch, published by Pantheon Books in 2007. It originally appeared as a three-issue comic book in 2002 as The Stuff of Dreams from Fantagraphics Books....
) The Boulevard of Broken Dreams
The Boulevard of Broken Dreams (comics)
The Boulevard of Broken Dreams, is a 2002 graphic novel by Kim Deitch. In 2005, Time chose it as one of the 100 best English language, graphic novels ever written.-Publication history:...
(story and book collection) Beyond the Pale (book collection) All Waldo Comics (book collection) A Shroud for Waldo (strip and book collection) Corn Fed Comics The Mishkin File No Business Like Show Business Shadowland (series and book collection) Hollywoodland (series)
Publications appeared in
Arcade (magazine)
Arcade: The Comics Revue was a magazine-sized comics anthology created and edited by Art Spiegelman and Bill Griffith to showcase the work of underground artists. Published by the Print Mint, it ran for seven issues between 1975 to 1976...
The Best of Bijou Funnies, Quick Fox Books, 1975, ISBN 0-8256-3228-5 Corporate Crime Comics East Village Other
East Village Other
The East Village Other , was an American underground newspaper in New York City, New York, published biweekly during the 1960s. EVO was among the first countercultural newspapers to emerge, following the Los Angeles Free Press, which had begun publishing a few months earlier...
Gothic Blimp Works
Gothic Blimp Works
Gothic Blimp Works, an all-comics tabloid published in 1969 by Peter Leggieri and the East Village Other, was billed as "the first Sunday underground comic paper". During its eight-issue run, the publication displayed comics in both color and black-and-white...
Heavy Metal (magazine)
Heavy Metal (magazine)
Heavy Metal is an American science fiction and fantasy comics magazine, known primarily for its blend of dark fantasy/science fiction and erotica. In the mid-1970s, while publisher Leonard Mogel was in Paris to jump-start the French edition of National Lampoon, he discovered the French...
High Times Laugh in the Dark LA Weekly
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, Allan Shenker, and Trina Robbins
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Awards
Deitch won the 2003 Eisner AwardEisner Award
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for Best Single Issue/Story for The Stuff of Dreams (Fantagraphics) and in 2008 he was awarded an Inkpot Award
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: "Underground Comix Come of Age: An Interview with Kim Deitch" (March 27, 2007).