"Beautiful Children" is the title of a recently published book by ....
by
.... Charles Bock.
One of the characters in the book is described as "a balding, pear-shaped cartoonist, burdened with the name Bing Beiderbixxe [I am not kidding], playing Doom-like video games into his 20s and nurturing sociopathic fantasies."
I have no idea if the fictional character Bing Beiderbixxe has anything to do with Bing and/or with Bix. The New Yorrk Times book review has the following paragraph (whih sheds no light on a posssible connection).
"Early in the novel, Newell, Kenny and Beiderbixxe, the cartoonist, meet at a Saturday talk in a comics store called Amazin’ Stories, where Beiderbixxe has come to discuss his illustrated series, “Wendy Whitebread, Undercover Slut.” Newell isn’t impressed. Too young and undereducated to pick up on Beiderbixxe’s ironies, he’s bored. “Honestly, it wasn’t exactly easy to get jazzed about Bing Beiderbixxe,” he thinks, puffed up with preteen scorn. “From the looks of things, Newell wasn’t alone in this opinion. The store was largely empty, just a few underclassman types solemnly wandering the new arrivals racks, and three or four guys standing a respectful distance from the autograph table, nodding and listening, but seeming unconvinced.”"
I must say I dislike the play on words, a tasteless distortion of Bix Beiderbecke's (rather unusual, I admit) name.