Alias the cat! / Kim Deitch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Deitch, Kim, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Graphic novels.

Comic books, strips, etc.

Genre:

Cats.

Graphic novels.

Comics (Graphic works)

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Pantheon Books, [2007]

Summary:

At the center of the novel Kim Deitch deftly places himself and his wife Pam--a passionate collector of Halloween cats from the 1920s and 30s, whose collection is impressive to say the least. But when she buys a mysterious old cat costume, she and Kim find themselves in wholly new territory: the lost world of Alias the Cat who, in 1915, appeared not only in a comic strip and film serial, but in real life as a freedom-fighting superhero. When Kim begins to research this forgotten figure, he uncovers one almost unbelievable story after another: about the Furries, a tiny subculture of people who dress up as cartoon animals in order to have sex; about Keller and Frankie, two seamen stranded on a Pacific island, forced to make cat toys to appease the natives; about the secret lover of Alias's alter ego, Malek Janochek; and, of course, about Deitch's own Waldo the Cat, the common thread weaving the stories together as Kim and Pam move toward a fateful showdown in Midgetville ... New Jersey, of course. Alias the Cat is Kim Deitch at his eye-catching, mind-bending best.

Notes:

"He dared to save a world!"

ISBN:

9780375424311

0375424318

OCLC:

70259062

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