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. ❋ 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. ❋ 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.” ❋ Unknown (2007)
Sam met everyone from Krazy Kat to Charlie Brown, and managed to work in no small amount of metafictional humor. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In Daryl Gregory's superbly metafictional "Message from the Bubble Gum Factory," a former sidekick finally realizes the broader implications of superheroes. ❋ Lou Anders (2010)
More promotional stuff for The Red Tree, and it's actually rather fun, putting these peculiar artifacts and metafictional gewgaws together. ❋ Sovay (2009)
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. ❋ Unknown (2009)
They brewed in my head, and suddenly I found myself thinking of a sort of ... metafictional mockumentary, I guess you could call it. ❋ Hal Duncan (2010)
With a metafictional wink and a nod from Dew, the narrator comments, "In fact, not until the second decade of the twenty-first century would Sputnik's connection to the demise of Desert Rose dinnerware . . . be noted and remarked upon in a novel written late in the career of one of those three-named women writers who initially cropped up in the 1980s." ❋ Rachel Basch (2011)
Andrews: At a quick glance, this looks to be a metafictional piece about Arthur C. Clarke's story of the same name. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I had a question - which you may choose instead to address in the blog for the benefit of all your readers — as I was struck with a similarity in regards to not only the metafictional elements of Sarah and Amanda's relationship in The Red Tree as compared to any of your own, but also of Francis Bacon and George Dyer. ❋ Greygirlbeast (2009)
I was so happy with “Her Voice in a Bottle” that I did the metafictional thing again, in a story called “Unexpected Outcomes” that will be in Interzone sometime, where I appear as a character — sort of. ❋ Unknown (2009)
It then suddenly becomes an underwater fantasy with a strong metafictional overtone. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I am quite sure then that I never had a single metafictional thought about it, and cared only for the fates of Meggie and Father Ralph! ❋ Unknown (2010)
This David Wallace wants us to know "that I find these sorts of cute, self-referential paradoxes irksome, too . . . and that the very last thing this book is is some kind of clever metafictional titty-pincher." ❋ James Campbell (2011)
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. ❋ Unknown (2009)
[Jeanette] Winerson's "Sexing the Cherry" is a core example of Metafiction.
"Metafiction? It's a [postmodern] term that creates a world of fantasy and makes the imagination [spiral out] of control". ❋ Purplepearl (2011)
Example 1: You gonna write one of your metafiction blog posts about how last night with that girl turned out? Too bad she [ditched] you. Nobody on the internet has to know that though.
Example 2: Wow, I really enjoyed A [Heartbreaking] Work of [Staggering] Genius. I think I am going to go write some metafiction about my friends and my life now. ❋ JakeinthedirtyD (2009)
