Kim Deitch

Kim Deitch

Deitch in a 2004 photo.
Born (1944-05-21) May 21, 1944
Nationality American
Area(s) Cartoonist, Writer, Artist
Pseudonym(s) Fowlton Means
Notable works
 The Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Alias the Cat!
Awards Eisner Award, 2003
Inkpot Award, 2008

Kim Deitch (born May 21, 1944[1] in Los Angeles) 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.[2] 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 hallucination of a hopeless alcoholic surnamed Mishkin (a victim of the 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.[2]

Biography

Deitch's influences include Winsor McCay, Chester Gould, Jack Cole, and Will Eisner; he attended the Pratt Institute.[1]

Deitch regularly contributed 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 joined Bhob Stewart as an 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, 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.[3] In 2008, the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art featured a retrospective exhibition of his work.

Personal life

From his first marriage, to comics writer-artist and author Trina Robbins, Deitch has a daughter, Casey.[4] Deitch later was married to animator Sally Cruikshank.[1] After that marriage ended, he met Pam Butler in 1994 and they subsequently married.[4]

Awards

Deitch won the 2003 Eisner Award for Best Single Issue/Story for The Stuff of Dreams (Fantagraphics)[5] and in 2008 he was awarded an Inkpot Award. In 2014, he was nominated for the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Graphic Novel for The Amazing, Enlightening and Absolutely True Adventures of Katherine Whaley.[6]

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.[7]

Publications appeared in

Lean Years (1974), a Cartoonists Co-op Press one-shot with cover art by Deitch.

Animation

References

  1. 1 2 3 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.
  2. 1 2 Kim Deitch at the Lambiek Comiclopedia. Retrieved on November 12, 2013. Archived from the original on September 7, 2013.
  3. ↑ Kelly, James; Lev Grossman; Richard Lacayo (October 16, 2005). "Time's List of the 100 Best Novels (1923–2005)". Time.
  4. 1 2 Murphyao, Amanda, in Booker, M. Keith, ed. (2014). "Deitch, Kim (1944- )". Comics through Time: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas. Greenwood. ISBN 978-0313397509.
  5. ↑ "2003 Eisner Awards For works published in 2002". San Diego Comic-Con International. Retrieved 2011-06-09.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ Fantagraphics list, last page of Smilin' Ed

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