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Sam Kieth


Born
in Grand Rapids, Michigan, The United States
January 11, 1963

Died
March 15, 2026

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Genre
Comics & Graphic Novels


Kieth first came to prominence in 1984 as the inker of Matt Wagner's Mage, his brushwork adding fluidity and texture to the broad strokes of Wagner's early work at Comico Comics. In 1989, he drew the first five issues of writer Neil Gaiman's celebrated series The Sandman, but felt his style was unsuited to the book (specifically saying that he "felt like Jimi Hendrix in The Beatles") and left, handing over to his former inker Mike Dringenberg.

He acted as illustrator on two volumes of writer William Messner-Loebs' Epicurus the Sage and drew an Aliens miniseries for Dark Horse Comics, among other things, before creating The Maxx in 1993 for Image Comics, with, initially, writing help from Messner-Loebs. It ran for 35 issues and was adapted, w ...more

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Average rating: 4.25 · 340,259 ratings · 13,679 reviews · 411 distinct works • Similar authors
The Maxx, Vol. 1
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4.21 avg rating — 3,798 ratings — published 1995 — 11 editions
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The Maxx, Vol. 2
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4.38 avg rating — 1,265 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions
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The Maxx, Vol. 3
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Arkham Asylum: Madness
3.46 avg rating — 1,079 ratings — published 2010 — 13 editions
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The Maxx, Vol. 4
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4.35 avg rating — 700 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions
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The Maxx, Vol. 5
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The Maxx, Vol. 6
4.26 avg rating — 520 ratings — published 2006
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Batman: Secrets
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The MAXX: Maxximized, Volume 1
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Zero Girl (Zero Girl #1)
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Series by Sam Kieth

The Maxx, Vol. 1 The Maxx, Vol. 2 The Maxx, Vol. 3 The Maxx, Vol. 4 The Maxx, Vol. 5 The Maxx, Vol. 6
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The MAXX: Maxximized, Volume 1 The MAXX: Maxximized, Volume 2 The MAXX: Maxximized, Volume 3 The MAXX: Maxximized, Volume 4 The MAXX: Maxximized, Volume 5 The MAXX: Maxximized, Volume 6 The MAXX: Maxximized, Volume 7
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The Maxx: Maxximized, #1 The Maxx #2 The Maxx #3 The Maxx #4 The Maxx #5 The Maxx #6 The Maxx, #7
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Zero Girl Zero Girl: Full Circle
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Batman Secrets #1 Batman Secrets #2 Batman Secrets #3 Batman Secrets #4 Batman: Secrets (2006) #5
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“it's the lies that get us through life, right?”
― Sam Kieth, Arkham Asylum: Madness
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“I can hear the bunny all the time now. Even when I'm outside, under my tree.
I'm mad at the bunny for being sick and bothering me.
For being...alive.”
― sam kieth, The Maxx, Vol. 2
tags: comics, sam-kieth, the-maxx
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“News never changes much. It’s just the same things happening to different people. I would rather experience things happening to me than read about them happening to others. I am my own newspaper and my own radio. I honestly don’t believe that man was meant to know everything going on in the world, all at the same time. A man turns on the TV and all those commentators bombard him with the local, the national and the international news. The newspapers do the same thing, and the poor guy with all the immediate problems of his own life is burdened with those of the whole world.”
― Sam Keith, One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
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