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posies23's review against another edition
5.0
I am, admittedly, very eccentric in my reading choices. I'm a big fan of comic books, mystery novels, fantasy lit, horror, thrillers, rock and roll biographies, film studies, contemporary theater, and the list goes on. Armed with this knowledge, it's remarkable just how many of my tastes this book appealed to.
ALIAS THE CAT, written and beautifully drawn by Kim Deitch, is a genre-bending journey that covers, among other things, comic strips, serials, terrorism, dolls, midgets, insanity, demons, and the wonders of ebay. Needless to say, it's difficult to pigeon-hole. In fact, I'm not even going to try. If this sounds even REMOTELY like something you'd enjoy, you need to pick it up.
I absolutely loved it.
ALIAS THE CAT, written and beautifully drawn by Kim Deitch, is a genre-bending journey that covers, among other things, comic strips, serials, terrorism, dolls, midgets, insanity, demons, and the wonders of ebay. Needless to say, it's difficult to pigeon-hole. In fact, I'm not even going to try. If this sounds even REMOTELY like something you'd enjoy, you need to pick it up.
I absolutely loved it.
saidtheraina's review against another edition
3.0
Very very odd. There's the long crazy plot about art (early serial films) imitating life (drama between the director and the city establishment). It involves a cat costume, explosives, and a town of baking little people. I appreciated how the plot oozed so so gradually into fantasy. And I found this the most accessible (and least wacky) book by Deitch I've read lately.
brantelg's review against another edition
5.0
This was a totally weird book, but I loved it. Kim Deitch creates this fake history of some cat thing and a series of film serials and writes so convincingly that I actually wanted to believe that what he was experiencing in the book really happened!
A truly great, but whacked out, read.
A truly great, but whacked out, read.
floodfish's review
3.0
This one of those books that starts out pretty good, gets a lot better, but then totally craps out by the end. Stop reading 2/3 of the way through just read the rest in your imagination maybe.
It's a lot of fun, and full of the gimmicks I love: stories-within-stories, meta-narratives, unreliable narrators, blurring of fact and fiction, and all kinds of good stuff on that front.
I can't imagine what it's like to read if you're not already familiar with Deitch's work, but I don't think you need to be. But if you don't like other stuff he's done you probably needn't bother with this.
It's a lot of fun, and full of the gimmicks I love: stories-within-stories, meta-narratives, unreliable narrators, blurring of fact and fiction, and all kinds of good stuff on that front.
I can't imagine what it's like to read if you're not already familiar with Deitch's work, but I don't think you need to be. But if you don't like other stuff he's done you probably needn't bother with this.
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