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3.5?

What a crazy, wonderful mess of a book. Alias reads like a dream (or a nightmare): what begins as the author and his wife's quaint hobby of searching for vintage cat dolls and costumes at flea markets unspools into a tangled web of narratives, all revolving around this luridly crude cartoon cat named Waldo. I won't even get into the plot; I just want to assure you that you'll find yourself on unsteady footing as you walk the line between purported fact and ostensible fiction. As for Deitch's form and technique, Alias the Cat is clearly the work of a master: any English major would have a field day with this book and its looping narratives, its moments of metafiction, and its fluid changes in graphic form (from straight-forward comic to newspaper clippings to film stills to comics within comics to graphic depictions of an oral history). This is my first Kim Deitch comic, so I have no way of comparing it to his earlier works. Regardless, I feel it would be safe to claim that Alias the Cat ranks among his best.