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Kitchen Sink Press was a comic book publishing company founded by Denis Kitchen in 1970. 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. The company closed in 1999. ==History== In 1969 Milwaukee 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)〔Acton, Jay, Le Mond, Alan, and Hodges, Parker. ''Mug Shots: Who's Who in the New Earth'' World Publishing: 1972; pp. 121〕〔Schreiner, Dave. ''Kitchen Sink Press, the First 25 Years''. Northampton, MA: Kitchen Sink Press, 1994; p. 14 ''et seq.''〕 and launched the Milwaukee-based underground newspaper ''The Bugle-American'', with Jim Mitchell and others.〔Kitchen, Denis. "Notes on the Underground... Confessions of an Underground Comics Publisher." ''Funnyworld'' #13 (Spring 1971), p. 30〕 Under the name of the Krupp Syndicate, he syndicated comic strips to almost fifty other underground and college newspapers. 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 in a controversial merger with Tundra Publishing. Media entrepreneur Fred Seibert cobbled together a group of small investors to try and reverse the fortunes of the company in 1997. After the failure of expansion into other venues of entertainment and merchandising, Kitchen Sink Press dissolved in 1999. In 2001 and 2012, Denis published comics under the publisher name of Denis Kitchen Publishing. In 2013, Dark Horse Comics announced an imprint, helmed by Denis Kitchen and John Lind, called Kitchen Sink Books. Dark Horse editor Philip Simon commented on unannounced projects saying "everything (and John ) are bringing to the table is going to be historically important.” Also in 2013, Columbia University's Rare Book & Manuscript Library made arrangements with Kitchen to acquire the archives of Kitchen Sink Press, including business documents, artwork, and correspondence. Columbia librarian Karen Green said the archives were "meticulously preserved". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kitchen Sink Press」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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