Kim Deitch is an American cartoonist who was an important figure in the underground comix movement of the 1960s, remaining active in the decades that followed with a variety of books and comics, sometimes using the pseudonym Fowlton Means.
Deitch in 2004
Lean Years (1974), a Cartoonists Co-op Press one-shot with cover art by Deitch.
Underground comix are small press or self-published comic books that are often socially relevant or satirical in nature. They differ from mainstream comics in depicting content forbidden to mainstream publications by the Comics Code Authority, including explicit drug use, sexuality, and violence. They were most popular in the United States in the late 1960s and 1970s, and in the United Kingdom in the 1970s.
The cover artwork for the first issue of Zap Comix, featuring the character Mr. Natural.
OZ London, No.33, February 1971; art by Norman Lindsay