Deitch's Pictorama

Book excerpt: Presenting a new type of graphic fiction from a legendary family inAmerican cartooning. Underground cartoonist Kim Deitch has recruited his entirecast of siblings to produce a unique, all-new "picto-fiction" pocket book.Deitch's Pictorama leads off with Kim's comic "The Sunshine Girl." Thenit's time for Seth's prose short story "Children of Aruf," about a man and hisdog... in a world where dogs talk. Third up is "Unlikely Hours," a paranoidpicto-story about a conspiracy of sentient rats written by Seth and illustratedby Kim. Next comes "The Golem," once again written by Seth and decorated with aseries of superb pencil illustrations by Simon, a prose novella about themythical Jewish monster/protector. Kim wraps with "The Cop on the Beat, the Manin the Moon and Me," one last comic - this one autobiographical. The bookfeatures an introduction by the Academy Award-winning animator, cartoonist andillustrator Gene (Tom and Jerry) Deitch, who happens to be the proudfather of the trio.