24 Facts About Dennis Eichhorn

Dennis P Eichhorn was an American writer, best known for his adult-oriented autobiographical comic book series Real Stuff.

Dennis Eichhorn was adopted when he was a few days old by Eileen and Elmer Eichhorn, and reared in Boise, Idaho.

Dennis Eichhorn graduated from Boise's Borah High School in 1963.

Dennis Eichhorn didn't learn he was adopted until he was in his 30s, and never met his birth mother.

Concurrent with his literary work, Dennis Eichhorn held a variety of jobs in fields that included hospitality services, driving, social work, and manual labor.

For four years, Dennis Eichhorn served as promoter and operator of the Blue Mountain Festival, an outdoor music festival held in the spring at the University of Idaho's Arboretum, and was the primary organizer of the 1971 Universal Life Church Picnic, a large festival held over the Fourth of July weekend in northern Idaho's Farragut State Park.

Dennis Eichhorn was a contributing writer to The Argonaut, the University of Idaho's student newspaper, while a student there in 1968.

Dennis Eichhorn then became a writer and senior editor at The Rocket, a monthly music magazine, from 1982 until 1991.

At The Rocket, Dennis Eichhorn met a number of Seattle-area and northwestern cartoonists and illustrators who eventually became contributors to his autobiographical series Real Stuff and Real Smut.

Dennis Eichhorn wrote a monthly comic, which he had illustrated by others.

Dennis Eichhorn signed up many significant artists, including most of the Fantagraphics legends.

In 1994, Dennis Eichhorn became editorial director for Loompanics Unlimited, a mail-order libertarian publishing and book distribution company in Port Townsend, Washington, a position which he held for four years.

Dennis Eichhorn was responsible for the publication of 65 books during this time, wrote dozens of articles and hundreds of book synopses for Loompanics' publications and catalogs, and oversaw contractual agreements with writers, as well as movie rights and foreign translations.

Dennis Eichhorn began writing autobiographical stories for sequential illustration, which he described as "anecdotal tales gleaned from [his] life's experiences".

From 1992 until 2006 Dennis Eichhorn wrote comic stories for Scram magazine, a Los Angeles music publication.

In 1993 Dennis Eichhorn funded Starhead Comix's publication of Real Schmuck comix.

Dennis Eichhorn paid for Starhead's publication of two other titles, The Amazing Adventures of Ace International in 1993 and Northwest Cartoon Cookery in 1995.

Dennis Eichhorn fell out with his publisher Fantagraphics in 1995.

In 2004, Top Shelf Productions released The Legend of Wild Man Fischer, a collection of comic book stories about the outsider musician which Dennis Eichhorn co-authored with artists JR Williams and Holly Tuttle.

Dennis Eichhorn said that the preponderance of violent stories in this book resulted from the publisher's selection of material, pointing out that the book contains "less than a quarter" of his output as of October 2003.

Dennis Eichhorn entered into an agreement with Boing Boing in 2013 to post some of his old Real Stuff comics online.

Dennis Eichhorn's work was mentioned, though not reprinted, in the 2015 and 2016 editions of The Best American Comics.

Dennis Eichhorn was married three times: first to Kip Charlson, then Joan Pelley, and finally Jane Rebelowski.

Dennis Eichhorn was featured on the cover of the magazine along with other autobiographical comic book creators.