{"product_id":"how-i-make-comics-9798875001673","title":"How I Make Comics","description":"\u003cem\u003eHow I Make Comics\u003c\/em\u003e is not just about how Kim Deitch makes comics, but about how comics made him. The book pinwheels between real autobiography and imagined comics history, but it begins in 1952 with a true story of eight-year-old Kim Deitch appearing in the audience of the \u003cem\u003eHowdy Doody Show\u003c\/em\u003e with eight-year-old Donnie Trump. Following Donnie's attempt to rig an election among the audience (no kidding!), Deitch relates a famous newspaper account of a diminutive wife who valiantly defends her equally diminutive husband in court, who just happens to be the inspiration of Harold Gray's \u003cem\u003eLittle Orphan Annie\u003c\/em\u003e. Periodically, Kim asks his own wife for her critique and advice of the stories he's told so far, which he takes into account for future tales that include revenge-driven circus performers, fairytale mural painters, sordid comic book lore, comics readers creating real-life superheroes, impossibly old cats issuing supernatural judgments and inhabiting the bodies of humans, culminating in the real-life story of Kim's mother hitchhiking across country and being picked up by none other than Forrest J. Ackerman, the sci-fi, fantasy, and monster aficionado, who takes her to a convention where she meets a teenaged Ray Bradbury. \u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eHow I Make Comics\u003c\/em\u003e is a creatively kaleidoscopic, non-stop exploration of how Deitch's imagination turns ideas, influences, and irritations into comics in his inimitable style. Snippets of behind-the-scenes explanations of his notes and sketches expand into cascading short stories. Each section goes freewheeling from notion to notion, quietly building themes and reveling in its own wild-eyed imaginative capacities across 180 pages to form both an intimate graphic memoir and an eye-popping graphic novel. One of the most prolific artists of his generation, Deitch enters his 60th year of cartooning more inventive than ever and showing no signs of slowing down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kim Deitch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fantagraphics Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/19\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.56h x 7.41w x 0.88d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798875001673\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2025 pg. 75\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/25\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeitch, Kim:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eKim Deitch\u003c\/strong\u003e lives in New York, NY, with his wife, the artist Pamela Butler. His books include \u003cem\u003eThe Boulevard of Broken Dreams\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eShadowland\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAlias the Cat\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Search for Smilin' Ed!\u003c\/em\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Kim Deitch \/ Hardcover \/ English","offer_id":48363647664285,"sku":"9798875001673","price":29.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_750a526f-5d27-4667-a2fb-9823ccefe343.jpg?v=1780428264","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/how-i-make-comics-9798875001673","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}