WALDO WORLD
waldo world
Fantagraphics (1986-2003)
Deitch’s artwork is not quite like anything else (well, except perhaps his brother’s). It has a distinct 20s-30s animation quality to it, but it’s also very, very stiff. But pleasingly so! Looking at these drawings, I get the feeling that it wouldn’t take much to make it all go quite awry, but the end effect is very endearing. The constant diagonal hatching technique he uses gives it all an obsessive quality that fits these tales where everything is interconnected. The Deitches present most of these stories as being true; they’re doing research into cartooning history. Ted Mishkin is the central character here, and we see a recreation here of a mural he did while in an insane asylum.and not the “where’s waldo” kind either.