In the world of comics, Denis Kitchen can do it all.

Cartoonist, editor, publisher, museum consultant—heck, he even produced a daughter, Alexa, who is rapidly developing into a word-class artist in her own right.

I’ve known Denis personally since 2002, when he vetted me as the guy who would eventually write the authorized biography, Will Eisner: A Spirited Life. It gives me great pleasure to bring him on the show today to talk about his two new books, The Art of Harvey Kurtzman: The Mad Genius of Comics, cowritten with Paul Buhle, and Underground Classics: The Transformation of Comics into Comix–with an X, co-authored with James Danky.

Next year, Dark Horse will bring out a monograph devoted to Mr. Kitchen’s own work, at which time we’ll have him come back and talk about that, too.

You can LISTEN to this interview with THE ART OF HARVEY KURTZMAN and UNDERGROUND CLASSICS co-author and cartoonist DENIS KITCHEN by clicking the BlogTalkRadio.com audio player above!

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