Kim Deitch

"All of Deitch's work is bristling with fun, fun that sometimes flows in a current so thick it seems like terror." – Jim Woodring

"Deitch's complex personal success-and-failure-cycle fables are somewhat similar to the gritty city stories of comics pioneer Will Eisner, but his illustration style and his wild, crowded imagery, are straight out of the Fleischer brothers' bizarre, psychedelic Betty Boop cartoons." – The Onion

"One of the godfathers of American underground comics." – Publishers Weekly

"Deitch is one of underground comics' great originals." – Byron Coley

"When the searing insight of Deitch's writing is added to the delightful two-dimensional quality of the art, amazingly successful in depicting the relationship between artistic enterprise and madness, what one experiences is a rare combination of great truth and great beauty." – The Comics Journal

"...Like Crumb, [Deitch] is one of the few underground cartoonists who has managed to keep his edge, and is currently producing work at least as good as, if not better than, that from his salad days." – Comics Comics

See also:
• Artist Bio
• Interview - Kim Deitch, August 31, 2007 (video)
• Blog posts relating to Kim Deitch on FLOG! The Fantagraphics Blog