Street Enterprises
| Status | defunct (1984) |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1971 |
| Founder | Jerry Sinkovec and Mike Tiefenbacher |
| Country of origin | U.S. |
| Headquarters location | Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin |
| Distribution | Newsstands, Direct market |
| Key people | Sinkovec and Tiefenbacher |
| Publication types | Newspapers, Magazines, Comic books |
| No. of employees | 2 |
Street Enterprises was a publishing company that focused on reprints of newspaper comic strips from the United States and the United Kingdom. Operating from 1971–1984, Street Enterprises is most known for the sister publications The Menomonee Falls Gazette and The Menomonee Falls Guardian, as well as for taking over publication of the comics news-zine The Comic Reader.
The company was based in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, and was the partnership of publisher Jerry Sinkovec (b. 1948) and editor Mike Tiefenbacher (b. 1952), who ran the operation out of a storage trailer. The S and T in "STreet" came from the first letters of the founders' last names.
Milwaukee-area comics enthusiasts Sinkovec and Tiefenbacher (a University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee art school graduate) met through letters printed in comics fanzines. Fans of adventure comic strips, which by the early 1970s had mostly disappeared from American newspapers, they banded together to publish The Menomonee Falls Gazette to keep the genre alive. In the company's early years, they published a selection of 32-page comic one-shots featuring a single character, such as The Cisco Kid, Jungle Jim, Krazy Kat, Prince Valiant, Rip Kirby, and Flash Gordon.
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