Russ Kick is an American writer, editor and publisher. He was the founder and editor of the website The Memory Hole, which published and archived US government documents, including scientific studies and reports, civil rights-related reports, intelligence and covert action reports, consumer safety reports, and images including photographs of flag-draped coffins of American military personnel. These photos of the war dead garnered worldwide media attention, including heavy rotation on all 24-hour news channels and front-page coverage on major newspapers, including The New York Times. The Memory Hole also gained attention for posting a completely uncensored version of a Justice Department report about its internal hiring practices, leading to a front-page story in The New York Times. Kick was also editor-at-large for The Disinformation Company, and has written three books and edited six anthologies for them, including You Are Being Lied To and 50 Things You're Not Supposed to Know. He is currently editing an anthology of classic and contemporary poems about death for Disinformation and Red Wheel/Weiser. He has also compiled and edited a three-volume, 1,600-page anthology set titled The Graphic Canon from Seven Stories Press, which features the world's great literature interpreted by over 120 artists and illustrators such as R. Crumb, Maxon Crumb, Will Eisner, Molly Crabapple, Sharon Rudahl, Dame Darcy, S. Clay Wilson, Gris Grimly, Roberta Gregory, Kim Deitch and Tara Seibel. The first volume, From The Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons, covers literature from ancient times through the end of the 18th century. The second volume, Kubla Khan to the Brontë Sisters to The Picture of Dorian Gray, is devoted completely to the 19th century, and the third volume, From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest, covers the entire 20th century. The next volume in the ongoing project, The Graphic Canon of Children's Literature, was published in November 2014. The most recent volume, Graphic Canon of Crime and Mystery series was published in November 2017 by Seven Stories Press. It expands the Graphic Canon series into the genres of Crime and Mystery. Earlier in his career, Kick wrote articles, a column, and a cover story for The Village Voice.
The Graphic Canon: The World's Great Literature as Comics and Visuals, Volume One: From The Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons. Seven Stories Press, 2012.
The Graphic Canon: The World's Great Literature as Comics and Visuals, Volume Two: From Kubla Khan to the Bronte Sisters to The Picture of Dorian Gray. Seven Stories Press, 2012.
The Graphic Canon: The World's Great Literature as Comics and Visuals, Volume Three: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest. Seven Stories Press, 2013.
Death Poems: Classic, Contemporary, Witty, Serious, Tear-Jerking, Wise, Profound, Angry, Funny, Spiritual, Atheistic, Uncertain, Personal, Political, Mythic, Earthy, and Only Occasionally Morbid. Disinformation and Red Wheel/Weiser, November 2013.
The Graphic Canon of Children's Literature. Seven Stories Press, summer 2014
Flash Wisdom: A Curated Collection of Mind-Blowing, Perspective-Changing Quotes. Disinformation and Red Wheel/Weiser, March 2015.
