Screiner, Dave. Kitchen Sink Press: The First 25 Years. Kitchen Sink Comic Art Reference Library no. 1. Northampton, MA: Kitchen Sink, 1994. 128 pp. ISBN 0-87816-307-7 (cloth), 0-87816-292-5 (paper).
NOTE: There is no Table of Contents for this book, so I have created one here. Individuals' names listed in some chapters refer to sidebars written by them and included in the chapters. Each chapter also includes a checklist of comics published by KSP that year. --GK--
Acknowledgements . . . 2
Cover Key . . . 3
Preface: Of Kitchen and Kitchen Sink . . . 4
Introduction . . . 5
1968: Before the Beginning . . . 8
1969: Homemade Comics . . . 9
Bill Klauth (11)
1970: Of Optimism and Naiveté . . . 12
Jay Lynch (15), Mike Baron (18)
1971: The First Best Seller . . . 19
Tyler Lantzy (23)
1972: Flying High . . . 25
1973: From Feast to Famine . . . 31
Will Eisner (32)
1974: Proposed Panacea . . . 35
Stan Lee (38)
1975: Digging Out of the Hole . . . 39
1976: Signs of Life . . . 41
Trina Robbins (43)
1977: Keep On Kruppin' . . . 44
Leonard Rifas (46)
1978: A New Spirit . . . 47
Art Spiegelman (48)
1979: In Full Swing . . . 50
"Who Is Steve Krupp?", by Denis Kitchen (52)
1980: Coming Out and Falling Out . . . 53
Howard Cruse (54)
1981: A Breakthrough Year . . . 56
Reed Waller (57)
1982: Comical Diversity . . . 60
Milton Griepp (62)
1983: Changes . . . 63
1984: A Mega Year . . . 67
Donald Simpson (69)
1985: Comics in the Country . . . 70
1986: The Epitome of KSP . . . 75
Kate Worley (76), Adele Kurtzman (78)
1987: Rhythm . . . 80
Mark Schultz (82)
1988: Full Speed Ahead . . . 84
James Vance (87), Jacques Boivin (89)
1989: Hit and Miss . . . 91
Steve Geppi (94)
1990: Eclectic Ephemera . . . 96
Frank Stack aka Foolbert Sturgeon (101), Carole Sobochinski (104)
1991: Courting Deadheads . . . 105
P.S. Mueller (111)
1992: The Winds of Change . . . 113
Will Elder (117)
1993: A Mammoth Move . . . 119
Alan Moore (121)
1994: As the Crow Flies . . . 124
Kevin Eastman (126)
Kitchen Sink Press Today . . . 127
Index . . . 128

Review by Mike Rhode:

Schreiner's history of Kitchen Sink Press is an enjoyably light-weight insider look at the company. A long-time editor for KSP, Schreiner has written a strictly factual, surface-level history of the company. The year-by-year chronology is heavily illustrated. The slim volume provides a good quick overview of Kitchen's twenty-five year publishing history, but an in-depth study of the company is still possible. 

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