In 1969 Milwaukee artist Denis Kitchen decided to self-publish his comics and cartoons in the magazine "Mom's Homemade Comics", inspired in part by the seminal underground comix titles "Bijou Funnies" and "Zap Comix". The selling out of the 4,000 print-run inspired him further, and in 1970 he founded Kitchen Sink Press (initially as an artists' cooperative) and launched the Milwaukee-based underground newspaper "The Bugle-American", with Jim Mitchell and others. Under the name of the Krupp Syndicate, he syndicated comic strips to almost fifty other underground and college newspapers.