Alias the cat!
by Deitch, Kim
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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Galway, Ireland
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About This Item
New York : Pantheon Books (�2007), 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine copy in the original colour printed pictorial boards. Particularly and uncommonly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 1 pages; Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 24 cm. Subject: Graphic novels. Comic books, strips, etc. 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.
Synopsis
Kim Deitch was a seminal figure in the Underground Comix movement in the 1960s, and over the last 30 years he has worked non-stop, his comix appearing in Raw, LA Weekly, Weirdo, Heavy Metal, and Nickelodeon Magazine among many other publications. He and Pam live in Manhattan, with their two cats (actual, real ones).
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Details
- Seller
- MW Books Ltd. (IE)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 220475
- Title
- Alias the cat!
- Author
- Deitch, Kim
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- New York : Pantheon Books (�2007)
- Date Published
- 2007
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About the Seller
MW Books Ltd.
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Galway
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