Well, here’s some bad news to end the year on. The wonderful Kitchen Sink Magazine, which has published work by cartoonists and writers like Farel Dalrymple and Laurenn McCubbin, is to fold next year, and needs financial help now:
Well, folks, the Sink’s backed up. These are tough times for independent media—we’ve seen some friends struggle and others succumb, and of course we’ve got problems of our own. Chief among them is that our distributor is behind on payments for previous issues, and with our current national distribution model, we rely on these payments to fund future issues.
KS15 is on hold at the printer until we can afford to have it shipped. This delay is also affecting KS16, which will conclude volume four. For now, you’ll have to take our word for it that both of these issues are amazing: gorgeous covers by Andrew Schoultz and Camille Rose Garcia, delicious insides by our staff and editors, as well as new contributors like Geraldine Kim, Gravity Goldberg, Julia Wertz, Rodney Koeneke and Stephanie Young.
We can’t wait for you to see these magazines, so we’re asking for your help. We need to raise $1,000 to get issue 15 shipped in January, and we also need to raise money for an expanded KS16, which will be our final issue.
Details of how to donate to the magazine to help them finish off their run are at the link. It’s still the holiday season, people. Go and help.
December 30th, 2006 at 8:43 am
Who is their distributor?
Weren’t they distributed for one issue by Image Comics, while McCubbin was with Image?
December 30th, 2006 at 1:43 pm
Their main distributor was IPA/Big Top, which was a distributor run by the Independent Press Association. You can read the whole sordid story here.
January 2nd, 2007 at 11:44 am
you know… i read this and- well it sorta made me angry somehow. Maybe angry isnt the word. But it seems like you should um, budget for stuff mr. Kitchen Sink Guys. Are these books given for free? or like to help war orphans or something? I don’t know. but it seems like they publish a lot of stuff- why dont they have the cash to print their own stuff- and need to raise money like a 10th grade field trip to the museum?
January 4th, 2007 at 8:27 pm
thanks for the kind words, Graeme.
David, you’re thinking of the PUBLISHING HOUSE kitchen sink which no longer exists.
this is the independent magazine, kitchen sink. it’s a nonprofit.
we do have a budget but it’s very small and relies almost entirely on our newsstand sales. when your distributor fucks you and dozens of other titles over and doesn’t actually pay you for your newsstand sales it tends to cause a huge problem.
this is where we’re at. not trying to take a field trip.
xx
carla costa
co-publisher
kitchen sink (the magazine)
November 16th, 2010 at 9:35 am
stainless kitchen sinks serves me better and they are stain resistant too .“
June 6th, 2011 at 8:20 pm
I’ll Digg this, thank you very much!