A New Documentary Explores the Life of Comics Pioneer Denis Kitchen

"Oddly Compelling"

There’s currently a Kickstarter campaign underway for the documentary Oddly Compelling: The Denis Kitchen Story. Among the incentives for this project are — as you might guess — some actual comics. Specifically, in 1972 Kitchen drew the cover for a comic which otherwise didn’t exist, titled The Giant Penis That Invaded New York. (The cover is exactly what you think it is.)

Below, you can see the trailer for the documentary — as well as contributions from Noah Van Sciver and Hilary Barta. (And, yes, this is extremely NSFW.)

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