{"product_id":"how-i-make-comics-kim-deitch-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 young Kim Deitch --impressionable and inspired-- appears throughout, soaking up the vibrant four-color comics magic he imbibed as well as the movie serials he avidly watched and the outré 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. \u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eHow I Make Comics\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \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 afficionado, who takes her to a convention where she meets a teenaged Ray Bradbury.\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798875001673\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fantagraphics Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/07\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Kim Deitch","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47072329138431,"sku":"9798875001673","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0a71df5b-9508-4473-aac6-7f8850337dbc.jpg?v=1753416480","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/how-i-make-comics-kim-deitch-9798875001673","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}