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Celebrated comics artist Kim Deitch talks about time out of joint, the joys of junk lit and those crazy animated cats
by MATTHEW HAYS
In the last few years, as they did in the late '60s and '80s, comics have once again busted out of their relegated spot in the cultural margins. Art Spiegelman, R. Crumb and Harvey Pekar have all become household names due to the growing popularity of the medium.
New York City's Kim Deitch is rapidly becoming the next big comics discovery. The only problem with the word "discovery" is that he's been working in the comics trenches since the '60s. Spiegelman himself has declared Deitch "one of the best-kept secrets in comics for the past 35 years."-->>
Kim Deitch will conduct a five-hour master class in comics creation at the Blue Metropolis Literary Festival on Saturday and Sunday, April 2–3, 10 a.m.–12:30 p.m., $45 (registration: adrian.turner@ blue-met-bleu.com), and joins Michael Kupperman, Lauren Weinstein, Nicolas Mahler, Billy Mavreas with Sam Shalabi, Sherwin Tjia and Rupert Bottenberg at Comix: A Blue View, at Salle Alfred-Rouleau B, Hyatt Regency Montreal (Complexe Desjardins) on Saturday, April 2, 3 p.m., $5
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