How I Make Comics - Kim Deitch

How I Make Comics is not just about how Kim Deitch makes comics, but about how comics made him. The young Kim Deitch - impressionable and inspired - appears throughout, soaking up the vibrant four-colour comics magic he imbibed as well as the movie serials he avidly watched and the outre stories he picked up from his parents. The contemporary Kim Deitch at 80 - by now an old hand at yarn-spanning - is shown bouncing story ideas off his wife Pam, trying out and discarding narratives until he gets it right. How I Make Comics 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 Howdy Doody Show 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 Little Orphan Annie. 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
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