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Upcoming
DKP Projects Include:
THE SKETCHBOOK ADVENTURES of PETER POPLASKI.
The long-time Art Director at Kitchen
Sink Press, book designer, writer, painter, fencer, comics/fine
art historian and bon vivant Peter
Poplaski is one of the most talented and yet least known
artists around. Poplaski created the ten glorious wraparound
covers for The Superman Dailies, Superman Sundays, Batman
Dailies and Batman Sundays co-published
by KSP and DC Comics, covers and stories for Corporate
Crime Comics, Comix Book, Snarf and Alan Moore's Tom
Strong. But it is Poplaski's ghosted covers for
such diverse titles as Li'l Abner, Gen of Hiroshima, Nard
n' Pat, Flash Gordon, The Aviation Art of Russell Keaton, Fearless
Fosdick, Spirit Jam and others that demonstrate Poplaski's
stunning mimickry. Even Milton Caniff himself could
not identify the lost Steve Canyon Sunday that
Poplaski ghosted for one of KSP's Canyon volumes.
This sketchbook represents a tiny fraction of the sketches Poplaski
creates daily. But don't take our word: the Introduction
is by long-time Poplaski admirer, Robert
Crumb. To be published by DKP as a hardcover in early
2005.
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R. Crumb's EARLY JAZZ GREATS Trading
Cards. America's homegrown geniuses
of jazz are featured in loving portraits in this distinctive
set of trading cards. Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton,
King Oliver, Jack Teagarden, Duke Ellington, Sidney Bechet, Fats
Waller, Mary Lou Williams, Fletcher Henderson and Benny
Goodman are among the thirty-six jazz musicians captured
by R. Crumb. Capsule biography of each on reverse. Similar
in format to Crumb's Heroes of the Blues (in print
from DKP). $10.95. Promotional poster also available. Early 2005.
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R. Crumb's PIONEERS OF COUNTRY MUSIC
Trading Cards. A fat FORTY-card
boxed set featuring country legends like Jimmie Rodgers
and the Carter Family alongside historic early groups
with unforgettable names like Gid Tanner & his Skillet
Lickers, Ernest Stoneman & the Blue Ridge Corn Shuckers,
Dr. Humphrey Bate & his Possum Hunters and Al Hopkins
& his Buckle Busters. Illuminating text by music historian
Rich Nevins with outstanding portraits by Robert Crumb.
Similar in format to Heroes of the Blues and Early
Jazz Greats. New promotional poster by Crumb! $10.95.
Early 2005.
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THE UNSYNDICATED KURTZMAN. A book which chronicle Harvey Kurtzman's
futile efforts over three decades to sell his various strip ideas
to newspaper syndicates. Though the comic book world sees Kurtzman
as a genius almost without peer, the syndicate editors did not
"get" him at all. Besides numerous rejected prototypes
(shot from original art in the Kurtzman archives) the book includes
some of the original rejection letters, including one from Walt
Kelly in the late '40s. Written/edited by Denis Kitchen.
Hoped-for release: Late 2005.
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SHMOO PINS. New
shmoo designs in clear gift box format similar to sold-out earlier
KSP sets. 2005.
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SHMOO RUSSIAN "NESTING" DOLLS.
Wooden hand-painted Shmoos in custom
box. Late 2005.
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