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ess The Entire Kitchen Sink Search Primary Menu The Entire Kitchen Sink The Entire Kitchen Sink Redux Search for: The Entire Kitchen Sink Redux 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 everything a publisher has er published, and then natter on about each series a bit. However, Kitchen Sink has published a large number of strip (and comic) reprints, and when it came time to read those, I found that my motivation evaporated completely. So I skipped reading those. Oops! But I did read all the other comics Kitchen Sink has published, and a fair portion of the non-comics stuff they published, too. Enough with these caveats — let’s get down to the Kitchen Sink publishing overview. Kitchen Sink started in 1969 as a vehicle to publish Denis Kitchen’s first book, Mom’s Homemade Comis . Then… things happened, and 30 years later Kitchen Sink shut down. Kitchen Sink has some quite distinct publishing periods, so in the listing below, I’ll be dividing the series (roughly) into these periods, as I see them. And I’m leaving out the reprinted comics, because they overwhelm the listing otherwise. (I’m including them in a separate section towards the end.) Underground Comics Kitchen Sink was one of the original major” Underground publishers, along with Print Mint, Last Gasp and Rip Off Press. However, being located in the Mid-West instead of in more liberal California meant that Kitchen Sink had to eschew publishing books that contained a lot of sex (at least for the first few years). This led to odd things like having an anthology that was called Bizarre Sex that didn’t really have that much sex. However, Kitchen Sink was the most progressive of the major Underground publishers. The other ones often came off as club-houses for straight white male cartoonists, and Denis Kitchen bucked that trend to some degree. For instance, he reached out to Trina Robbins with a suggestion for her to create an anthology that turned into Wet Satin , and she later said that he was the first publisher that reached out in that way. Historically significantly, he reached out to Howard Cruse and asked him to edit an LGBTQ+ anthology, and that became Gay Comix . Both of these initiatives got significant push-back, with printers refusing to print the anthologies, customs seizing the books, and comics shops being raided for obscenity for carrying them. And Kitchen didn’t reach out to create these anthologies because he saw a market opportunity, but because he felt that these books should exist. Mom’s Homemade Comics (1969) #1-3 Deep 3D Comix (1970) #1 Smile (1970) #1-3 Teen-Age Horizons of Shangrila (1970) #1-2 Quagmire Comics (1970) #1 Hungry Chuck Biscuits Comics and Stories (1971) #1 Home Grown Funnies (1971) #1 Cloud Comix (1971) #1-2 ProJunior (1971) #1 The Great Marijuana Debate! (1972) #1 Bijou Funnies (1972) #1-8 Dirt Ball Funnies (1972) #1 Snarf (1972) #1-15 Bizarre Sex (1972) #1-10 Death Rattle (1972) #1-3 O.K. Comics (1972) #1-2 XYZ Comics (1972) #1 Fever Dreams (1972) #1 Mickey Rat (1972) #1-2 Super Soul Comix (1972) #1 Sphinx Comics (1972) #2 The Pagfeek Papers (1973) #1 Commies from Mars (1973) #1 High Adventure (1973) #1 Tales from the Fridge (1973) #1 Weird Trips Magazine (1974) #1 Consumer Comix (1975) #1 Barefootz Funnies (1975) #1-3 An Army of Principles (1976) #1 Trina’s Women (1976) #1 Comix Book (1976) #4-5 The People’s Comics (1976) #1 The Compleat Fart & Other Body Emissions (1976) #1 Artistic Comics (1976) Mr. Natural (1977) #3 Joel Beck’s Comics and Stories (1977) Dutch Treat (1977) Corporate Crime (1977) #1-2 Fear and Laughter (1977) Weird Trips (1978) #2 Dope Comix (1978) #1-5 Nard n’ Pat (1978) #1-2 Sleazy Scandals of the Silver Screen (1978) #1 Mondo Snarfo (1978) #1 Banzai! (1978) #1 Mu: The Land That Never Was (1978) #1 The Bunch’s Power Pak Comics (1979) #1-2 Snappy Sammy Smoot (1979) Class War Comix (1979) #1 Hyper Comix (1979) #1 Phoebe & the Pigeon People (1979) #1-3 Snoid Comics (1980) Gay Comix (1980) #1-5 Crystal Night #1 (1980) Alternative & Eisner Comics By the 1980s, head shops were history, and Kitchen Sink was selling mostly through mail order and through the new direct sales” market. The latter wasn’t receptive to underground comics, so Kitchen Sink pivoted away from classic underground comics and went into (mostly) colour alternative comics… as well as really getting into publishing new work by Will Eisner. Mod (1981) #1 The Art of Will Eisner (1982) Bop (1982) #1 Fandom Confidential (1982) Signal from Space (1983) Will Eisner’s Quarterly (1983) #1-8 Megaton Man (1984) #1-10 Harold Hedd in Hitler’s Cocaine” (1984) #1-2 A Contract with God (1985) Death Rattle (1985) #1-18 The Dreamer (1986) Will Eisner’s New York the Big City (1986) Border Worlds (1986) #1-7 Omaha the Cat Dancer (1986) #1-21 Alien Fire (1987) #1-3 Xenozoic Tales (1987) #1-14 Ev’ry Little Bug (1987) The Building (1987) Dancin’ Nekkid With the Angels (1987) Twist (1987) #1-3 The Return of Megaton Man (1988) #1-3 Kings in Disguise (1988) #1-6 Melody (1988) #1-10 A Life Force (1988) Chips and Vanilla (1988) #1 Blab! (1988) #1-8 Denizens of Deep City (1988) #1-8 Megaton Man Meets The Uncategorizable X+Thems (1989) #1 Yarn Man (1989) #1 City People Notebook (1989) Secret of San Saba (1989) Steven (1989) #1-8 French Ticklers (1989) #1-3 Border Worlds: Marooned (1990) #1 Dorman’s Doggie (1990) Halsted Street: Torment & Drama from the Hog Butcher (1990) Owlhoots (1990) #1-2 Wendel Comix (1990) #1 Bizarre Heroes (1990) #1 Pteranoman (1990) #1 Buzz (1990) #1-3 World’s Worst Comics Awards (1990) #1-2 Curse of the Molemen (1991) Grateful Dead Comix (1991) #1-7 To the Heart of the Storm (1991) Will Eisner Reader (1991) Images of Omaha (1992) #1-2 Cadillacs and Dinosaurs 3-D (1992) The Acid Bath Case (1992) Blood Club (1992) Ernie and His Uncle Sid (1992) #1 Hypnotic Tales (1992) Invisible People (1992) #1-3 Motherless Child (1992) Peepshow: The Cartoon Diary of Joe Matt (1992) Cadillacs and Dinosaurs Special Tyco Toys Edition (1993) Grateful Dead Comix (1993) #1-2 Tundra Kevin Eastman had lost a lot of money on Tundra, so he wanted to wind down his involvement in that business… by acquihiring Denis Kitchen, basically. Eastman bought 51% of Kitchen Sink (some say 49% with 2% being held by some wise guy), and Denis Kitchen moved into Tundra’s offices and started running the business. So quite a lot of the books from this period are books that had already been started during the Tundra days, and Kitchen Press pushed them out the door (and over a cliff). However, not much of the Tundra lineup remained after a year or so. Blue Block (1993) Cherry’s Jubilee (1993) #1-4 Flesh Crawlers (1993) #1-3 Apocalypse… The Eyes of Doom (1993) From Inside (1993) Neekibo (1993) Grisnoir (1993) Hyena (1993) #1-4 Madman Adventures (1993) Thump’n Guts (1993) #1 The Upturned Stone (1993) Now, Endsville and Other Stories (1993) Tantalizing Stories (1993) #1-6 Madman: The Oddity Odyssey (1993) Captain Sternn: Running Out of Time (1993) #1-5 Cages (1993) #1-10 Black Cat Crossing (1993) Madman (1993) #1 Cherry (1993) #1-19 Messozoic (1993) A Century of Women Cartoonists (1993) All-American Hippie Comix (1994) Kitchen Sink Press: The First 25 Years (1994) Twisted Sisters (1994) #1-4 Eden (1994) Maximum Volume (1994) Kitchen Sink Classics (1994) #1-3 Illegal Alien (1994) The Crow (1994) Introducing Kafka (1994) Alien Fire: Pass in Thunder (1995) Twisted Sisters, Volume 2: Drawing the Line (1995) Alex Toth (1995) Armed and Dangerous (1995) Button Man: The Killing Game (1995) Ocean Group The new Kitchen Sink-branded Tundra continued to lose money (but the participants disagree in how much was lost). New investors were needed, and were found in...