The Mishkin File #1
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Story of the Mishkin Murals," Kim and Simon Deitch craft a haunting, intricately drawn tale of art, madness, and the blurred line between creator and creation. Dr. Reinman’s chilling account of cartoonist Ted Mishkin’s obsession with his fictional cat Waldo unfolds across surreal, meticulously rendered pages, leading to a haunting legacy that follows even after Mishkin’s confinement. The story’s unsettling atmosphere is matched by the Deitch brothers’ shared art and inks, with Kim Deitch’s distinctive cover capturing the eerie, dreamlike tone of the tale.
In "The Mishkin File," Dr. Reinman recounts the unsettling case of cartoonist Ted Mishkin, whose obsession with his fictional feline creation, Waldo, blurs the line between imagination and reality. When the delusion resurfaces in Ted’s nephew Nathan—just after Nathan’s mysterious escape from the asylum—Reinman’s carefully constructed reality begins to unravel, leading him to a final, unexpected role in the very story he once sought to explain.
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Reprinted in The Boulevard of Broken Dreams #[nn] (2002)
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