About The Cat

Gene Deitch's character The Cat appeared in comic strips and panels in the jazz collector's magazine The Record Changer during the late 1940s. Deitch, father of underground cartoonist Kim Deitch (Waldo, Hollywoodland), was an inveterate jazz collector during the hobby's postwar heyday, and his comics capture the over-the-top obsession of the hardcore music fan as only an insider could.

The elder Deitch's work hasn't yet been collected, but a number of The Cat strips appear in the third issue of Robert Crumb's comix anthology Weirdo, which is still available from its publisher, Last Gasp Of San Francisco (777 Florida Street, San Francisco, CA 94110; 1-800-848-4277). I'm always on the lookout for back-issues of The Record Changer, particularly those with Deitch's work, so if you have any cluttering up your garage please drop me a line.

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