Inspired by a real-life incident -getting his tie caught in a movingMoviola editing machine- Gene Deitch, cartoonist, animator, memoirist, renaissance man, created Nudnik, his Everyman character, a cross between Candideand Godot. The star of 12 Paramount-produced animated shorts that ran intheatres as an opening to the main movie in 1964 and 1965, Nudnik was one ofDeitch's most creatively personal and commercially successful creations in along career of innovative and successful work, including the award-winninganimated versions of Jules Feiffer's Munro and Maurice Sendak's Where the WildThings Are. Nudnik is the well-intentioned, kind, cheerful, but bumbling naf, inspired by and reflecting such archetypal characters as Jackie Gleason's PoorSoul, Charlie Chaplin's Tramp, and Charles Schulz's Charlie Brown. He never getsa break, can't do anything right, but somehow muddles through, dignity more orless intact. Nudnik Revealed! finally collects all of Deitch's originaldrawings, sketches, model sheets, storyboards, and color set-up that he drewduring the Nudnik production season of 1964-1965, all reproduced from originalart, showcasing his lively pencil line and his slick, authoritative pen and inkwork. Deitch, a born storyteller and one of the great raconteurs of comics andanimation, accompanies the copious examples of art with a running commentary byturns, funny, spirited, and chock full of historical insights. | Nudnik Revealed by Gene Deitch, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters