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THE WORLDS OF SAM KIETH, VOLUME ONE. FIRST PRINTING. JULY 2013. Entire contents 2013Sam Kieth. Published by IDW IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works, LLC. Editorialoffices: 5080 Santa Fe St., San Diego, CA 92109. Any similarities to persons li ving or dead are purelycoincidental. With the exception of artwork used for review purposes, none of the contents of thispublication may be reprinted without the permission of Idea and Design Works, LLC. Printed in Korea.IDW Publishing does not read or accept unsolicited submissions of ideas, stories, or artwork.
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Ted Adams, CEO & PublisherGreg Goldstein, President & COORobbie Robbins, EVP/Sr. Graphic ArtistChris Ryall, Chief Creative Officer/Editor-in-ChiefMatthew Ruzicka, CPA, Chief Financial OfficerAlan Payne, VP of SalesDirk Wood, VP of MarketingLorelei Bunjes, VP of Digital Services
ISBN: 978-1-60010-492-2
Special thanks toTed, Robbie and Scott
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Words and pictures by Sam KiethDesign by Sam Kieth and Robbie Robbins
Edited by Scott Dunbier
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Samplings and Dabblings retrospective
book, I realized something very important:I talk too much. Worse yet, as I age, like an
old fart, I tend to repeat the same old
stories over and over, adnauseum, about
"breaking in" to comics, about Sandman,
Marvel Comics Presentscovers, The Maxx,
Zero Girl, Troutstuff, etc I poured over
that museum book interview and was
proud that, after lots of pruning, yes, I did
manage to say a few new things. But
otherwise, I promised myself that the
"introspective interview" phase of my lifewould be over.
So what you're holding in your hand
here seems to contradict that promise.
Yeah, it's mainly an art book, full of
(hopefully) pretty pictures, full of sketches
from the last ten years. But I tried to make
it more than just a rehash of old projects. It
breaks my life into thirds, and I dug into old
photos, found notes I'd written to myself
while I was working on older projects,
looking for something determined to
share things I'd not said before, peel back a
little deeper. I reduced the pages talkingabout personal issues and drew them on the
brown sketch paper with black colored
pencil, omitting detail to keep them
"honest" and keep the focus off detail or
orientation. If I was gonna take one last walk
into the past, I wanted to keep the
flashbacks brief and to the point. These little
islands of key moments in my life are
surrounded by oceans of various paintings
in various stages of aborting or decay,
unfinished or alternate versions.What this book is not is a pretty
picture book. It's not chock-full of Maxx
pages or Marvel Comics Presents covers,
either. The focus here are the sketchbooks I
keep, which are "mind maps," a visual flow
chart of development, only in reverse.
Instead of mapping out which-image-goes-
where, first come the images, sketched in
random order on random pages. Then my
mind cuts, steals, abducts and reorders them
into a Chinese dragon. Thus Bimbo wasn't
After the interview I gave for the Cartoon Art Museum's
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conceived with a happy ending at first, or
anyending, because I didn't have an endingwhen I started it. Instead, it was a way out of
the depression I felt at the time. Maxx(which
is covered more in book two) didn't start
with my knowing that Maxx the bum sought
a fantasy Outback to escape being hit by a
car and having his life turned upside down.
The sketchbooks were less plot, and always
start as a roadmap out of some conflict
inside my life or heart. But I'm often not
aware of it until years later or that the
stories, paintings or even just doodlesscribbled in margins are a kind of therapy on
paper. Trying to unravel them inadvertently
creates a plot, which is backwards from the
right brain/plot first method.
But this is the only way I know.
Peppered with (hopefully brief) personal
tidbit pages along the way, the goal here
was to give all of you a new look into my
"process." My wife (who copy-edited the
first draft) and editor/friend Scott Dunbier
are the only one's who've seen and read it
all so far. They both expressed astonishment
at the worlds I seem so obsessed with, orwere struck by how what seems chaotic
from outside is in reality a meticulously
organized universeat least in my own
head! And they both expressed being
touched by my mom's recollections from my
childhood, which I've tried not to edit and
just let stand for themselves.
Mostly it's a book of pretty (and
ugly) pictures, which is what I was trying like
hell for it NOT to be. But hopefully it also
serves as a last walk through my mind, apeek into my imagination and "creative
construction" process. I wanted to revisit my
past, present and future with at least a
smidge of honesty.
So it's a little bit autobiographical.
A little bit allegorical. A LOT of self-
indulgence but then, what Sam Kieth
work isn't?
Sam Kieth
May 1st 2013
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