Kim Deitch books - Review in NYT BOok Review

Summer Reading - Comics - John Hodgman - New York Times: "Now in two new books, SHADOWLAND (Fantagraphics, paper, $18.95) and ALIAS THE CAT! (Pantheon, $23), Deitch draws a dark, twisting line from the carnival sideshow to New Jersey and its brief tenure as the movie serial capital of the United States, from lost comic strips to urban myths to fairy tales to the provenance of flea market antiques and eBay finds and all the other strange and sometimes forgotten ways we told stories to one another in the last century."