Denis Kitchen was born on August 27,1946 and is an American underground cartoonist, publisher, author, agent, and the founder of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.
11 Facts About Denis Kitchen
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Denis Kitchen took classes in journalism and started frequenting a local coffeehouse called the Avant Garde.
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Denis Kitchen became opposed to the Vietnam War and joined the Socialist Labor Party of America.
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In 1969 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.
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The selling out of the print run of 4000 inspired him further, and in 1970 he founded Denis Kitchen Sink Press and launched the underground newspaper The Bugle-American, with Jim Mitchell and others.
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In 1993, Denis Kitchen Sink Press merged with Kevin Eastman's Tundra Publishing and relocated to Northampton, Massachusetts.
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Since two of the works cited in the case as obscene were published by Denis Kitchen Sink Press, Denis Kitchen felt some responsibility for Correa's predicament.
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Denis Kitchen raised money for the defense of Correa who saw his conviction overturned on appeal.
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Denis Kitchen used surplus funds to incorporate the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund as a non-profit charitable organization in 1990.
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In 2010, Dark Horse Comics released The Oddly Compelling Art of Denis Kitchen which served as part art book and part autobiography.
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In 2013, Dark Horse Comics announced it had established a joint venture imprint entitled Denis Kitchen Sink Books, directed by Denis Kitchen and business partner John Lind to focus on art books, historical collections and reprints.