{"id":2989,"date":"2011-04-19T20:05:05","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T00:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=2989"},"modified":"2011-04-16T17:09:48","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T21:09:48","slug":"portrait-night-412-kim-deitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=2989","title":{"rendered":"Portrait Night 4\/12 (Kim Deitch)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tonight’s #PortraitNight subject is underground comics legend, Kim Deitch. When it comes to underground cartoonists of the 60s and 70s, Robert Crumb seems to always grab the spotlight, but in a “desert island” situation, my pick would be the works of Kim Deitch. He’s one of the greatest–if not the <\/em>greatest–world-builder in comics. Start reading the works of Deitch’s expansive cartooning career and you’re entering a\u00a0 labyrinthine world where just about every narrative element seems to turn out to be connected to every other one. You can never be sure what’s “real” and what’s not; even when Deitch himself appears in his own comics as a narrator, he’s not to be trusted. (I also wound up having dinner with him and a bunch of other folk–including Crumb–a while back, and he seemed like a nice fella as well, so that’s a point in his favor as well!) Anyway, here’s tonight’s portrait:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This isn’t actually the photo I used for reference, but it turned up in my Google image search and it was such a great image, I though I should include it:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The image is by Seth Kushner, who has a ton of great photography at his site<\/a>, including some other cartoonists.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019d like to suggest a #PortraitNight subject, you can do so either via the comments section here, or via my Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tonight’s #PortraitNight subject is underground comics legend, Kim Deitch. When it comes to underground cartoonists of the 60s and 70s, Robert Crumb seems to always grab the spotlight, but in a “desert island” situation, my pick would be the works of Kim Deitch. He’s one of the greatest–if not the greatest–world-builder in comics. Start reading … <\/p>\n

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