Kim Deitch

Kim Deitch, (b. 1944, USA) is generally held to be one of the greatest influences in American underground comix. He contributed to comical and psychedelical comix like The East Village Other, introducing characters like 'Sunshine Girl' and 'The India Rubber Man', starting in 1967. He was co-editor of Gothic Blimp Works, and co-founder fo the Cartoonists Co-op Press. Throughout the years, Deitch has published a number of solo comix, starting with 'Corn Fed Comics' in 1972. Then followed 'The Stuff of Dreams', 'The Boulevard of Broken Dreams', 'Beyond the Pale', 'All Waldo Comics', 'A Shroud for Waldo', 'The Mishkin File', 'No Business Like Show Business', 'Shadowland' and 'Hollywoodland', mainly dealing with themes like addiction, deception and delusion.