Denis Kitchen

The story of “underground comix,” like so much from the 1960s-‘70s after a half century or more has passed, grows dim, like an old and fond film seen—not on late night television anymore but streamed. These “comix,” anticipating “alternative comics,” a category never less than vague, and the rise of the modern graphic novel, never did quite receive the place in the history of comic art that their role merited. 

More easily forgotten is the actual production and sales of the comics that made today’s graphic novels possible. The scholarly/classroom boom in “comic art” may yet open up further studies by new generations. Until then…the Denis Kitchen Story in the form of a new book, Conversations with Denis Kitchen (University of Mississippi Press)

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