Kitchen Sink Press
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| Parent company | Krupp Comic Works (1970–1975) |
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| Status | Defunct (1999) |
| Founded | 1970 |
| Founder | Denis Kitchen |
| Country of origin | U.S. |
| Headquarters location |
Princeton, Wisconsin (1970–1992) Northampton, Massachusetts (1993–1999) |
| Publication types | Comic books |
| Fiction genres | Alternative, Underground |
| Imprints | Krupp Comic Works Kitchen Sink Comix Kitchen Sink Enterprises Top Dollar Comics |
| Official website | Denis Kitchen and Kitchen Sink Press |
Kitchen Sink Press was a comic book publishing company founded by Denis Kitchen in 1970. Kitchen Sink Press was a pioneering publisher of underground comics, and was also responsible for numerous republications of classic comic strips in hardcover and softcover volumes. These included comic strip reprints in hard cover and soft cover. One of their best-known products was the first total reprinting of Will Eisner's The Spirit, first in magazine format then in color. The company closed in 1999.
In 1969 Milwaukee artist Denis Kitchen decided to self-publish his comics and cartoons in the magazine Mom’s Homemade Comics, inspired in part by Bijou Funnies and Zap Comix. The selling out of the 4,000 print-run inspired him further, and in 1970 he founded Kitchen Sink Press (initially as an artists' cooperative) and launched the Milwaukee-based underground newspaper The Bugle-American, with Jim Mitchell and others. Under the name of the Krupp Syndicate, he syndicated comic strips to almost fifty other underground and college newspapers.
In addition to Milwaukee artists like himself, Mitchell, Bruce Walthers, Don Glassford, and Wendel Pugh, Kitchen began to publish works by such cartoonists as Howard Cruse, Trina Robbins and S. Clay Wilson (as well as taking over the publishing duties of Bijou Funnies from 1970–1973), and he soon expanded his operations, launching Krupp Comic Works, a parent organization into which he placed ownership of Kitchen Sink Press and through which he also launched such diverse ventures as a record company and a commercial art studio.
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