The metafictional book stars Deitch himself and his best-known creation, Waldo the Cat. It's about a character named Alias the Cat who appeared in 1915 in a comic strip and a serial film, as well as in real life as a freedom-fighting superhero, but who mysteriously disappears. As Deitch researches the character, the story keeps getting more and more involved.
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"Concerns my wife's big flea market passion, old stuffed cat toys"
Stuff of Dreams: Part 1edit
So one day, Pam and Kim take a trip to the flea market, discovering of a precious collectable black cat toy. The owner, known as Keller, suggests going to the bar to discuss prices, though instead begins his story of how he came into possession of the toy. Shifting to Keller as the narrator, Keller introduces Frankie, a fellow seaman who was the original owner of the toy. The story shifts narrators again to Frankie's point of view, describing how he was shipwrecked on a paradisaical island until Waldo appears. The island inhabitants worship Waldo, making toys of his likeness, until inhabitants rebel against Waldo's cruelty and a volcano destroys the island. The story continues to shift perspectives until Keller is ultimately gifted a Waldo toy leading to Kim, Pam, and Keller sitting in the bar together in the present. Kim and Pam return home to discuss the validity of Keller's story. The story ends by Kim and Pam breaking the fourth wall and asking the audience if they have seen Waldo or a Waldo doll and if they'll deliver the toy to Pam.
Stuff of Dreams: Part 2edit
Following Pam's expansive collection of black cat paraphernalia, Pam finds an ill-kept cat costume for sale with unknown origins. The rest of the book follows Kim and Pam researching Alias the Cat, the costume being from a 1915 feature film.
Stuff of Dreams: Part 3 No Midgets in Midgetvilleedit
Kim encounters Waldo the Cat.
Charactersedit
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The cartoonist metafictionally appears himself as a character in the story. The opening portions of the book have the flavor of Harvey Pekar's autobiographicalAmerican Splendor, as Deitch details aspects of his and his wife's lives in a seemingly autobiographical manner.[1]
Pam Butler
Deitch's wife and obsessive collector of cartoon cats of the 1920s and 1930s.
Waldo
Deitch's best-known recurring character, a talking cartoon cat whom most people cannot see.
Publishing historyedit
Originally Alias was published as a three-issue series of comics,[2] called The Stuff of Dreams, published by Fantagraphics Books in 2002, 2004, and 2005. It was collected by Pantheon Books in hardcover form in 2007.
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