The Search for Smilin' Ed

I dearly love Kim Deitch's stories--they're some of the most bizarre bits of Americana you can find. Kim portrays himself as the narrator in books past but this time he takes the back seat as Waldo, his full-time tormentor and part-time revelator who begins life as a Disney-esque cat and takes on a life of his own as a minor demon from hell. This is the third book I've read of Deitch's (the first two were "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" and "Alias the Cat") and they've all been as equally enjoyable, mixing forgotten bits of Americana (children's shows, cartoons, movies, comics, etc.) with the psychedelia of characters who are tormented by invisible demons and hidden midget towns.