| Parent company | Krupp Comic Works |
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| Status | defunct (1999) |
| Founded | 1970 |
| Founder | Denis Kitchen |
| Country of origin | U.S.A. |
| Headquarters location | Princeton, Wisconsin (1970–1992) Northampton, Massachusetts (1993–1999)[1] |
| Publication types | Comic books |
| Fiction genres | Alternative, Underground |
| Official website | Denis Kitchen and Kitchen Sink Press |
Kitchen Sink Press was a comic book publishing company founded by Denis Kitchen in 1970. Kitchen owned and operated Kitchen Sink Press until 1999. Kitchen Sink Press was a pioneering publisher of underground comics, and was also responsible for numerous republications of classic comic strips in hardcover and softcover volumes. These included comic strip reprints in hard cover and soft cover. One of their best known products was the first total reprinting of Will Eisner's The Spirit first in magazine format then in color.
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In 1969 artist 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. The selling out of the 4000 print-run inspired him further, and in 1970 he founded Kitchen Sink Press (initially as an artists' cooperative)[2][3] and launched the underground newspaper The Bugle-American, with Jim Mitchell and others.[4] Under the name of the Krupp Syndicate, he syndicated comic strips to almost fifty other underground and college newspapers.[5] In addition to Milwaukee artists like himself, Mitchell, Bruce Walthers, Don Glassford, and Wendel Pugh, Kitchen began to publish works by such cartoonists as Howard Cruse, Trina Robbins and S. Clay Wilson, and he soon expanded his operations, launching Krupp Comic Works, a parent organization into which he placed ownership of Kitchen Sink Press and through which he also launched such diverse ventures as a record company and a commercial art studio.
In 1993, Kitchen moved operations from Princeton, Wisconsin, to Northampton, Massachusetts.
Kitchen Sink collapsed in 1999; Kitchen is currently working with Boom! Studios to release old KSP titles as part of the company's imprint called Boom! Town.[6]
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