Kim Deitch

Kim Deitch (born 1944) is an American comics artist. His long career began in the underground comics movement of the 1960s, and has continued until today. His best-known comics involve a mysterious cat named Waldo. He has sometimes worked with his brother, Simon Deitch, and is son of an illustrator/cartoonist Gene Deitch.

Unlike many of his underground comics peers, Deitch has continually developed as an artist throughout his career. In the past two decades, his comics comics have become increasingly lengthy and eloborately crafted. His current attention to detail is comparible to that of Chris Ware, although the two artists' styles are very different in other ways.

Common themes in Deitch's work are addiction (specifically alcoholism), deception and delusion. His interest in the history of animation, cinema and vaudeville also play a prominent role in his work. An affection for pigs is apparent in his work.

Solo Deitch titles:

• The Stuff of Dreams
• The Boulevard of Broken Dreams
• Beyond the Pale
• All Waldo Comics
• Corn Fed Comics
• The Mishkin File
• No Business Like Show Business
• Shadowland
• Hollywoodland

Contributed to:

• Arcade
• Corporate crime comics
• East Village Other
• Gothic Blimp Works
• Heavy Metal (magazine)
• High Times
• Laugh in the Dark
• LA Weekly
• Pictopia
• Prime Cuts
• Raw
• Tales of sex and death
• Weirdo
• Young Lust
• Zero Zero