Jim Mitchell (born April 28, 1949) is an

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from

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. Mitchell was part of the late-1960s/early-1970s

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scene and a co-founder of the Krupp Comics/

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group (with

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and Don Glassford). Kitchen, Denis. "Notes on the Underground... Confessions of an Underground Comics Publisher." ''Funnyworld'' #13 (Spring 1971), p. 30 In the early 1970s, Mitchell (then a

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student) regularly created strips such as "Smile" for the

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'', which were subsequently syndicated to other underground and

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s 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'', ''

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'', '' Pro Junior'', and '' Hungry Chuck Biscuit's Comics & Stories''. Mitchell was imprisoned in

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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.

References

Sources

*''A History of Underground Comics''; Mark James Estren. 3rd ed. (Berkeley, CA. : Ronin, 1993) *''Encyclopédie des bandes dessinées''; Marjorie Alessandrini, ed. (Paris: A Michel, 1986)

External links

Mitchell's Distant Thunder Studios homepage

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