Book, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, O[LS]

Unpublished in Brazil, Kim Deitch is one of the great names in American comics. His work is an investigation of twentieth-century popular culture, an alternative, macabre and occasionally hilarious history of the world and art. EISNER award-winning author. 1930s. The public fills the cinemas with each new drawing of Waldo the cat, a great success of the Fontaine Fables. Ted Mishkin, its creator, should be over the moon, but the truth is that in recent times he has sunk even deeper into the bottle. Mishkin also hides a terrible secret: Waldo the cat, his greatest creation, is also his greatest torment. In The Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Deitch rewrites the history of American animation. A masterpiece that, in dealing with major themes – art, love, life and everything in between – places Deitch alongside creators such as Robert Crumb and Art Spiegelman.