NOTES
The merry birthday party in the left-hand panel of this three-part woodcut devolves into violence in the center. A father wields an enormous pair of scissors—apparently intending to cut his daughter’s hair from the jaws of the now-diabolical doll. On the right, vengeance is carried out by an aviator holding decapitated dolls’ heads aloft.
The story that spawned Snacktime Marcy, Tom Huck’s first triptych, only appears too bizarre to be true. Any child or parent alive in the 1980s will remember the “Cabbage Patch Kid” dolls, but few will remember the “Snacktime Kid.” Her mechanical mouth, designed to gobble up her very own plastic French fries, instead latched onto anything in her path—including hair—and did not let go.
