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| Jim Mitchell | |
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| Born | James Mitchell April 28, 1949 Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Cartoonist, Writer, Artist |
Notable works | Smile |
Jim Mitchell (born April 28, 1949) is an American underground cartoonist from Milwaukee. Mitchell was part of the late-1960s/early-1970s Milwaukee underground comix scene and a co-founder of the Krupp Comics/Kitchen Sink group (with Denis Kitchen and Don Glassford). [1] [2] [3]
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In the early 1970s, Mitchell (then a Marquette University student) regularly created strips such as "Smile" for the underground newspaper The Bugle , which were subsequently syndicated to other underground and college newspapers via the Krupp Syndicate. His strips (and covers) appeared in The Bugle; in three issues of his own comic, Smile (1971-1972); and in other comix, including Teen-Age Horizons of Shangrila , Mom's Homemade Comics , Bizarre Sex , Pro Junior , and Hungry Chuck Biscuit's Comics & Stories .
Mitchell was imprisoned in Mexico for four and a half years for possession of marijuana which prevented his involvement in the further evolution of the underground scene, but was released in late 1977.
He runs his own full-service art studio, Distant Thunder Studios, in Milwaukee.
