[art/comix] GENE DEITCH IN BERKELEY MAY 16TH
From Fantagraphics Books:
YOU ARE INVITED:
WHAT: AN EVENING WITH GENE DEITCH
WHERE: COMIC RELIEF IN BERKELEY, CA
WHEN: FRIDAY, MAY 16th, FROM 7 TO 8 P.M.
FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS and COMIC RELIEF are pleased to present a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: the chance to meet and mingle with the Academy Award-winning animator and cartoonist GENE DEITCH, author of THE CAT ON A HOT THIN GROOVE and father to underground cartoonist KIM DEITCH.
This is the only public appearance that Deitch, 79, will be making to promote THE CAT ON A HOT THIN GROOVE. The cartoonist, who has lived in Prague for over 30 years, will be returning home that weekend, making this an extremely rare opportunity to meet a living legend.
On the long road to becoming an Oscar-winning animation director, Gene Deitch became an intense jazz fan. At the age of 21 in 1945, he discovered The Record Changer magazine, a jazz collector’s magazine filled with fanatical, scholarly, and purist essays about jazz as well as listings of hard-to-find jazz albums. Deitch created a cartoon feature for Record Changer titled “The Cat,” which quickly became a fixture at the magazine. He also started drawing the covers, which graved almost every issue from 1945 to 1951 along with “The Cat.” Deitch’s stylistically virtuoso images exquisitely embodied the essence of jazz and became a visual paean to the joy of collecting and appreciating jazz.
Fantagraphics Books is proud to collect all of Deitch’s Record Changer covers and “Cat” cartoons in one coffee-table, landscape-format art book, reproducing his covers in the same gorgeous colors in which they first appeared as well as the black-and-white Cat cartoons and a commentary by Deitch — who later went on to become an award-wining animator as the Creative Director of CBS/Terrytoons, where he created Tom Terrific and Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog for The Captain Kangaroo Show, as well as many other animated features.
THE CAT ON A HOT THIN GROOVE • By Gene Deitch
$39.95 • 200 pp. • Full-Color • ISBN: 1-56097-526-1
Fantagraphics Books:
http://fantagraphics.com/
COMIC RELIEF • 2138 University Avenue • Berkeley, CA 94704 • 510.843.5002
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