I remember Lines On Paper's first Sequential Artist Of The Month (or so) from when I first started buying underground comix at the Free Press Bookstore at Colorado & Fair Oaks in Pasadena in 1970.

His stories always were, and still are, comfortable and inviting, despite the specters of gunplay, heroin use and other unsavory conduct by fat deviants and cute cartoon characters. (Learn the origin of Waldo in his new book)

I finally met Kim Deitch at a book signing recently and found him to be as charming and interesting as his massive catalog.He does appear as he draws himself (see our new coffee mug) with beard, balding pate and ponytail but you can tell he'd fit right into a $1200 suit.I wish we¹d had more time to reminisce.

His new book (with brother Simon, The Boulevard Of Broken Dreams published by Pantheon is available at Hi De Ho Comics and the other fine establishment located in our links section.No page numbers, but the book is huge and marvelous and it "conjures up a haunting and haunted American past."- Art Spiegelman

He's also appeared in:
Lemme Outta Here, Hydrogen Bomb Funnies, Lean Years (great Waldo Christmas thriller), Thrilling Murder, D.O.A., Mishkin Files, 00, Tales Of Sex & Death, and.. wait.. there's more.. It'll come to me - ah...

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As sixties comics were popular and under-exploited from an artistic point of view, they were the perfect medium for Kim Deitch. In 1972 he published his first underground comic book, 'Corn Fed Comics'. Soon after, he began contributing to various magazines (East Village Other, 'Bijou Funnies') and put out more comic books. Currently, he is working on several projects, including the series 'The Search for Smilin' Ed' and a monthly kids comic called 'Nickelodeon'. As this title indicates, much of Deitch's comix work is linked to animation, centering on animation as an industry and animation characters. Deitch regularly exhibits his originals in various galleries. Kim Deitch is generally held to be one of the greatest influences in American underground comix

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