An Entirely Ill-Advised Reading of all Comics Published by Kitchen Sink Press
Hi! Welcome to a kinda-sorta complete overview of everything Kitchen Sink published. I started this project in late 2021, and it took me a year and a half to complete. Compared with some of my other comics reading projects (see sidebar to the right) I kinda-sorta failed: The schtick with these projects is to read Continue reading The Entire Kitchen Sink Redux
The R. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book (1997) by Robert Crumb This is it! The final post in this series, and I can finally pack up my means of production after writing this blog post! Liberate the guest room! But first, this huge, square book. It s not really what I had expected at all. It s Continue reading 1997: The R. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book
Human Monsters: The Bizarre Psychology of Movie Villains (1995) by George E. Turner and Michael H. Price This is a blog about the comics Kitchen Sink published, and not about their other stuff, but as you can see from this last batch of posts, I decided to also do most (or all?) of the books Continue reading 1995: Human Monsters: The Bizarre Psychology of Movie Villains
If I m So Famous, How Come Nobody s Ever Heard of Me? (1996) by Jewel Shepard I ve read one of Shepard s previous books, Invasion of the B Girls, which was a pretty interesting book. So while I m eventually going to read this book, I just don t have the time to do so right now, and I Continue reading 1996: If I m So Famous, How Come Nobody s Ever Heard of Me?
Waiting For Food (1995) by Robert Crumb Very conceptual. So all the drawings here were done on restaurant placemats in three local restaurants, and the restaurants kept the placemats! *gasp* So you d expect more throw-away art, but these aren t doodles. These drawings are more accomplished than much of what appears in Crumb s sketchbooks. It s pretty Continue reading 1995: Waiting For Food
Voodoo Child (1995) by Martin I. Green and Bill Sienkiewicz I m not a Hendrix fan. I mean, I like some of his songs, but I have none of his albums and I don t really know much about him, so this isn t really a book aimed at people like me. But I am a Sienkiewicz fan, Continue reading 1995: Voodoo Child
Introducing Kafka (1994) by David Zane Mairowitz and Robert Crumb This was originally published in the UK under the name Kafka for Beginners , which is a much better name, I think. The book is a quite chatty one it starts off with a polemic against the concept of kafkaesque , which is a slightly odd Continue reading 1994: Introducing Kafka
The Frazetta Pillow Book (1993) by Frank Frazetta Ellie Frazetta sort of explains the concept behind the book The concept is porn? Right? Right? Anyway, what we get is a bunch of drawings of nude and semi-nude people hanging out, instead of what Frazetta is mostly known for semi-nude people fighting other semi-nude people. Continue reading 1993: The Frazetta Pillow Book
Collectibly Mad (1995) by Grant Geissman This is a big, thick book, all about EC and Mad Magazine ephemera. It includes a solid interview with publisher William Gaines and Geissman keeps to the main subject of the book (collectables and stuff) with admirable tenacity. The editor explains that Geissman hadn t originally intended to include Continue reading 1995: Collectibly Mad
Violent Cases (1997) by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean I remember buying this back in the 80s (in the British edition that had a much better cover): But it seems it s gotten lost over the years, so I bought the Kitchen Sink edition now. Violent Cases was part of that first wave of comics aren t Continue reading 1997: Violent Cases