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You are a human animal.

You are a very special breed.

Or you are the only animal.

Who can think, who can reason, who can read.

Hello and welcome to Bookworm.

I'm Michael Silverblad, and today my guest is Kim Deich, and I have a special guest as well, Art Spiegelman, to introduce him.

Kim Deich is the author, the artist, most recently, of the Boulevard of Broken Dreams.

It comes from Pantheon Press, and I am kind of happy.

Back, back, back, back, back.

I rested an interview with Art Spiegelman about the second volume of Mouse,

and we became friends.

Now, when I go to New York, I'm frequently at his house where I am the happy recipient

of things thrown at me, the first issues of Chris Ware's, Jimmy Corrigan series,

all sorts of things that he feels that I should know.

And then, at a certain point, a bunch of color Xeroxes of the work of Kim

Dyche, who, although he has had collections in comic book form, mostly from Fantagraphics,

has never had a hardcover book of his work. And this is the first. I think that he's a

favorite of yours, art. Can you tell me what fascinated you about

Kim Dyche?

Well, it started pretty early on before there was even a real definition of what this

underground comic stuff might be when I just like gotten into that world in New York

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