'Beyond The Pale Krazed Comic Stories'

Fantagraphics Books, 1989, 136

Written and Illustrated by Kim Deitch

The comics of this collection bring together Deitch's strange brands of seedy fantasy and silly satire. A former merchant marine and psychiatric attendant, he lived among the down-and-out on New York's Lower East Side. In the story "Keep 'em Flying," Deitch portrays himself as a hypnotized figure who ends up on another planet with one of his own characters, the cigar-smoking Waldo the cat. The goofily interesting Famous Frauds series relates the history of a supposedly mechanical chess player and the hard lives of those who actually sweated inside the huge contraption, preying on an unsuspecting chess-playing public. The best story, "Two Jews from Yonkers," is an autobiographical, squalid tale about cartooning, drugs and the Pope. The drawing style here has Sunday-morning-funnies charm as interpreted by a hippie/Bowery bum.


Brings together 23 short stories of varying lengths. 

Also by Kim Deitch

The Boulevard of Broken Dreams 
https://www.piratebays.to/torrent/8517375/Kim_Deitch_-_The_Boulevard_of_Broken_Dreams

A Shroud For Waldo 
https://www.piratebays.to/torrent/8584931/A_Shroud_For_Waldo

Or just click on his name in the Tags up above. All but a couple of my uploads tagged with his name will be live for the next few days.