Bruce Walthers von Alten is an American underground

Underground comix

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 cartoonist

Cartoonist

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. Also known as Bruce von Alten, Walthers was part of the late-1960s/early-1970s Milwaukee

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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 underground comix scene and a member of the Krupp Comics/Kitchen Sink group, which also included Denis Kitchen

Denis Kitchen

Denis Kitchen is an American underground cartoonist, publisher, author, and agent from Wisconsin, and the founder of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.-Early life:...

, Jim Mitchell

Jim Mitchell (cartoonist)

Jim Mitchell 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 .In the early 1970s, Mitchell regularly created strips for the underground newspaper...

, Don Glassford and Wendel Pugh. In the early 1970s, he regularly created weekly strips for the Wisconsin

Wisconsin

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 underground newspaper The Bugle-American, which were subsequently syndicated to about 50 other underground and college newspapers via the Krupp Syndicate. These strips, titled O. K. Comics, frequently featured his trademark character, Oscar Kabibbler, a spherical eyeless nebish who drifted into bizarre and cryptic settings. Walthers was also known for inexplicable blimp

Blimp

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s emblazoned with mysterious messages. In 1972, he drew two issues of O.K. Comix for Kitchen Sink Press

Kitchen Sink Press

Kitchen Sink Press was a comic book publishing company founded by Denis Kitchen in 1970. Kitchen owned and operated Kitchen Sink Press until 1999. Kitchen Sink Press was a pioneering publisher of underground comics, and was also responsible for numerous republications of classic comic strips in...

 and also contributed to Snarf

Snarf

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