Kim Deitch
Kim Deitch is a renowned American cartoonist and important figure in the underground comix movement of the 1960s alongside Spain Rodriguez, Trina Robbins and Robert Crumb. His work spans original prints, books and comics often engaging the animation industry and characters from the cartoon world.
He is known for creating strip serials for alternative weekly newspapers, short comics stories for new anthologies including Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly’s RAW, and individual comic books for independent publishers including Fantagraphics. A linchpin of the cartoon world, his work appears in collections including the National Gallery of Art. Learn more at: The Paris Review, The New York Times, The Comics Journal
Right: Kim Deitch drawing on a litho stone at Corridor Press.
