Deitch´s Pictorama

Presenting a new type of graphic fiction from a legendary family in American cartooning. Veteran underground cartoonist Kim Deitch, creator of the acclaimed Fantagraphics collection Shadowland and the Pantheon graphic novels Alias the Cat and Boulevard of Broken Dreams, has recruited his entire cast of siblings to produce a unique, all-new "picto-fiction" pocket book. Alternating between heavily illustrated near-comics stories and outright prose pieces, Pictorama is a testament to the entire Deitch family´s amazing yarn-spinning abilities. The book leads off with Kim´s lengthy picto-story "The Sunshine Girl," a typically Deitchean tall tale involving bottle cap collectors, drug dealers, family secrets, and the innocents who wind up in the middle of the hullaballoo. Then it´s time for Seth´s prose short story "Children of Aruf," about a man and his dog...in a world where dogs talk. Third up is "Unlikely Hours," a paranoid picto-story about a conspiracy of sentient rats written by Seth and illustrated by Kim. Next comes "The Golem," once again written by Seth and decorated with a series of superb pencil illustrations by Simon, a bona fide prose novella about the mythical Jewish monster/protector. Finally Kim goes solo again with "The Cop on the Beat, the Man in the Moon and Me," one last picto-fiction talethis one autobiographical and dealing with an old-time singer whose path Kim crossed back in the 1960s. This entire "Deitch treat" is wrapped up with an introduction by the legendary Academy Award-winning animator, cartoonist and illustrator Gene (Tom Terrific, Terr´ble Thompson, Tom and Jerry) Deitch, who happens to be the proud father of the trio.