metafictional

This kind of metafictional goofing around was a common convention of the Looney Tunes cartoons, which often referred implicitly or explicitly to the offscreen animator, with characters looking upward in this way to get the attention of the artists a device most famously used in Chuck Jones' Duck Amuck a few years earlier.

The Girl Can't Help It Ed Howard 2008

This kind of metafictional goofing around was a common convention of the Looney Tunes cartoons, which often referred implicitly or explicitly to the offscreen animator, with characters looking upward in this way to get the attention of the artists a device most famously used in Chuck Jones' Duck Amuck a few years earlier.

Archive 2008-06-01 Ed Howard 2008

Another is that we're seeing some kind of metafictional "author/writing" gambit, although that's more Morrisonian than Waidian, and we're already seeing hints of that in the outer-space sequence, with Buddy talking about how the universe likes him.

Week 32: Holiday Charm Douglas Wolk 2006

Another is that we're seeing some kind of metafictional "author/writing" gambit, although that's more Morrisonian than Waidian, and we're already seeing hints of that in the outer-space sequence, with Buddy talking about how the universe likes him.

Archive 2006-12-01 Douglas Wolk 2006

“How serious you expect us to take this?” says the Hog, “I mean, come on, you’re just the author messing around, trying to pull some kind of metafictional stunt.”

More Love for Jack Butler : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2007

Andrews: At a quick glance, this looks to be a metafictional piece about Arthur C. Clarke's story of the same name.

TOC: The Secret History of Science Fiction edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel 2009

In Daryl Gregory's superbly metafictional "Message from the Bubble Gum Factory," a former sidekick finally realizes the broader implications of superheroes.

Archive 2010-06-01 Lou Anders 2010

We mercilessly critiqued one another, and explored weird mixes of Bizarro, Horror-eroticism, metafictional, vulgarian, bloody stories, and things that are yet to have names.

Author of "HPL and His Legacy" : The Lovecraft News Network 2009

It then suddenly becomes an underwater fantasy with a strong metafictional overtone.

More stories : Bev Vincent 2010

The Ceremonies is a strongly metafictional novel, and proudly so; its protagonist is a professor who's taking time off from his life in New York to read horror fiction for Pete's sake.

MIND MELD: The Forgotten Books of SF/F/H 2009