Keith Green (art)

Keith Green
Born	c. 1951
Died	1996 (aged 44–45)
Nationality	American
Occupation	underground comix distributor & publisher, art dealer
Years active	c. 1969–1996
Known for	Keith Green / Industrial Realities Saving Grace Keith Green Gallery
Relatives	Justin Green (brother)

Keith Green (c. 1951–1996) was an American publisher, distributor, and art dealer. Starting out in the late 1960s as an underground comix distributor, in the early 1970s he published comics, and by the mid-1970s he had become a New York City art dealer. He was the younger brother of cartoonist Justin Green.

Based in San Francisco, as a teenager Green distributed underground comix starting in c. 1969. He published comics during the period c. 1971–1977, with the bulk coming in 1975–1976, under such names as Keith Green / Industrial Realities and the imprint Saving Grace.

Green started out by doing later printings of comics published by other publishers. In c. 1971, he produced the fourth through eighth printings of Robert Crumb's Big Ass Comics, originally published by Rip Off Press in 1969. Around the same time, Green reprinted Robert Williams' Coochy Cooty Men's Comics, originally published by the Print Mint in 1970. In 1976, he produced new printings of Ted Richards' Dopin' Dan #1-2, originally published by Last Gasp in 1972–1973.

When the self-publishing cooperative Cartoonists Co-Op Press started up in 1973, Green acted as salesman/distributor. In 1974, Green interviewed Robert Crumb for Inside Comics. Thanks to his visit to Crumb and his girlfriend, fellow cartoonist Aline Kominsky, Green helped finance their collaborative work, Dirty Laundry Comics #1, published by Cartoonists Co-Op Press in summer 1974.

The bulk of Green's publishing output was in 1975–1976, when he produced original comics by S. Clay Wilson, Jim Osborne, Willy Murphy, Ted Richards, Jerry Lane, and Spain Rodriguez. (Spain later said that Green was "quirky" and that publishing with him "was a mistake.")

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