Underground comics legend Richard Corben (member of the Will Eisner Awards Hall of Fame) Submits cover idea for Death Rattle #1 (1972)

R. Crumb talks records, comics, Richard Corben, Will Eisner, and more (1972)

Crumb Family Jam—1984 Christmas card with self-portraits drawn by R. Crumb, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, and 4-year-old Sophie Crumb.

Will Eisner (The Spirit, A Contract with God, the eponymous Eisner Awards) responds to Kitchen’s invitation to draw a cover for one of the undergrounds (1972)

Proof of Eisner’s cover for SNARF #3, with production notes (1972)

Columbia Journalism school student and future comics historian Mark Estren asks for the skinny on undergrounds (1970)

Fan letter from Stan Lee (1970)

Proposal from Kitchen to Stan Lee for an approved, underground version of Spider-Man (1973) [page 1 only]

Stan Lee’s response re the Spider-Man proposal (1973)

Letter from cartoonist Jay Lynch (“Bijou Funnies,” worked at Topps with Art Spiegelman on Wacky Packages and Garbage Pail Kids, wrote Bazooka Joe), 1970

Postcard from Art Spiegelman, with rubber stamp decoration, about work for Kitchen Sink Press and his own forthcoming publication, RAW (1980)

Fan letter from cartoonist Dave Cooper (Suckle), 1996

Harvey Pekar script with his own thumbnails, attached to letter describing earlier work for R. Crumb, Robert Armstrong, and George DiCaprio (underground cartoonist and Leonardo’s father), 1972

Will Eisner’s color guide for a page in Kitchen Sink Press’ “Spirit” reprint

Cover art by Vaughn Frick for Gay Comix #4, last issue to be edited by pioneering cartoonist Howard Cruse (1983)

• Proof (?) for cover of Charles Burns’ Planet Xeno, which would evolve into the graphic novel Black Hole (one of over 1000 pages of Burns material)

A glimpse at just one of the drawers of carefully organized correspondence, featuring luminaries such as Bernie Wrightson, Wally Wood, Jim Woodring, Basil Wolverton, S. Clay Wilson, Gahan Wilson, Al Williamson, and more.