The Cat on a Hot Thin Groove: The Complete Collection of 78rpm Artwork from the Legendary Record Changer Magazine
by Gene Deitch
Category: Art

On the long road to becoming an Oscar-winning animation director, Gene Deitch became an intense jazz fan, discovering The Record Changer, a jazz collector's magazine filled with fanatical, scholarly and purist essays about jazz. His jazz-inspired comic, 'The Cat', soon became a regular fixture at the magazine, and from 1945-1951 his drawings graced almost every single cover. Now this coffee-table art book collects all of his covers in gorgeous colour, as well as the b/w Cat cartoons and a commentary by Deitch.