Underground comix Based in
San Francisco as a teenager, Green distributed underground comix starting in
circa 1969. Around the same time, Green reprinted
Robert Williams' ''Coochy Cooty Men's Comics'', originally published by the
Print Mint in 1970. In 1976, he produced new printings of
Ted Richards' ''Dopin' Dan'' #1-2, originally published by
Last Gasp in 1972–1973. When the self-publishing cooperative
Cartoonists Co-Op Press started up in 1973, Green acted as salesman/distributor. In 1974, Green interviewed
Robert Crumb for
Inside Comics. Thanks to his visit to Crumb and his girlfriend, fellow cartoonist
Aline Kominsky, Green helped finance their collaborative work,
Dirty Laundry Comics #1, published by Cartoonists Co-Op Press in summer 1974. The bulk of Green's publishing output was in 1975–1976, when he produced original comics by
S. Clay Wilson,
Jim Osborne,
Willy Murphy,
Ted Richards, Jerry Lane, and
Spain Rodriguez. (Spain later said that Green was "quirky" and that publishing with him "was a mistake.") Green's final publishing venture was
The Snatch Sampler (1977), a 164-page book that reprinted material from
Snatch Comics #1–3 (Apex Novelties/Print Mint) featuring Crumb, Wilson, Osborne,
Victor Moscoso,
Robert Williams, and
Rory Hayes.
Art dealer Green relocated to New York City around 1975, eventually operating the Keith Green Gallery on
Park Avenue in New York City in the late 1980s. Artists he represented included
Shaoul Smira,
Marina Karella,
Dragan Malešević Tapi, Anders Bertil Knutsson, Ivonne Baki,
Basil Alkazzi, and a group of late-
Soviet-period avant-garde
Russian artists.
Death Keith Green died of a
heart attack on July 1, 1996. == Titles published ==