The Cat on a Hot Thin Groove

by Gene Deitch

Book Overview

On the long road to becoming an Oscar-winning animation director, Gene Deitch became an intense jazz fan. At the age of 21, he discovered The Record Changer magazine, a jazz fan magazine filled with obsessive, scholarly, and purist essays about jazz as well as listings of hard-to-find jazz albums. Every jazz swinger in the '40s was called a cat (as in "cool cat"), so Gene Deitch created a cartoon feature for Record Changer titled "The Cat," which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1606996177
• ISBN13: 9781606996171
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 11.8" x 9.3"