Kim Deitch

Kim Deitch

Kim Deitch (* 1944 ) is an American cartoonist .

Life

Deitch is the son of illustrator and animator Gene Deitch and occasionally works with his brothers Simon and Seth Deitch . His most famous character is a mysterious cat named Waldo , who appears as a well-known cartoon character from the 1930s, but also as the demonic reincarnation of Judas Iscariot . He was a major figure in the underground comix movement of the sixties, regularly contributing to The East Village Other with humorous, psychedelic comics (which included characters such as "Sunshine Girl" and "The India Rubber Man") . In 1969 he became editor of Gothic Blimp Works . Kim Deitch also worked as Fowlton Means . In 2008 the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art held a retrospective of his work. In 2003 Deitch won an Eisner Award for The Stuff of Dreams (Fantagraphics), in 2008 an Inkpot Award .

bibliography

• Alias ​​the Cat!
• The Stuff of Dreams
• The Boulevard of Broken Dreams
• Beyond the Pale
• All Waldo Comics
• A Shroud for Waldo
• Corn Fed Comics
• The Mishkin File
• No business like show business
• Shadowland
• Hollywoodland

Web links

• Kim Deitch. In: Lambiek . June 22, 2019(English). 
• Jeffrey Ford: An Interview with Kim Deitch. In: Fantastic Metropolis. October 9, 2002, archived from the original on November 25, 2005 . 
• Steven Heller: Underground Comix Come of Age: An Interview with Kim Deitch. In: aiga.org. March 27, 2007, archived from the original on May 8, 2007 . 
• Kim Deitch, John Kuramoto: The Ship That Never Came In! (Flash animation based on the Waldo strips) In: twinkleland.com. 2003, archived from the original on June 27, 2004 .