| Bizarrism Vol. 2 Contributor(s): Mikul, Chris (Author), Smith, Glenn |
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ISBN: 1909394483 ISBN-13: 9781909394483 Publisher: Headpress OUR PRICE: $18.95 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Popular Culture - Humor - Biography & Autobiography |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.70 lbs) 260 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Bizarrism II collects further tales of high strangeness around the world. The cast includes an eccentric baroness, a murderous comic book artist, an obsessed ichthyologist, a celebrity stigmatic, a cannibalistic writer, a senile surgeon and a woman who tried to make atheism into a religion. Along the way, a light is shone on various religious cults, mysterious deaths are pondered, conspiracy theories probed and the fate of Napoleon's penis tracked. It's a lively, meticulously researched collection of tales that will amuse, appal and intrigue, and leave you marvelling at the infinite strangeness of human beings. |
Contributor Bio(s): Mikul, Chris: - Chris Mikul has been clipping weird stories out of newspapers for as long as he can remember. Hea (TM)s been writing and publishing Bizarrism, Australiaa (TM)s longest-running zine, since 1986, and also produces Biblio-Curiosa, a zine devoted to strange fiction. His other books include The Cult Files, Tales of the Macabre and Ordinary, TV Poems and The Eccentropedia. He lives in the Sydney suburb of Newtown, home of many an eccentric, with his partner Cath.Smith, Glenn: - Glenn "Glenno" Smith is an art mercenary, paying the rent in Sydney with his wonderful wife Gina and the beginnings of an army of vengeful cats. He spends most of his time drawing wizards for doom bands and spikey lettering for bands that don't care if the text is legible or not. He teaches illustration, plays in a band called Chinese Burns Unit and can be found in a sitting position at his desk most hours of the day. Glenno is also making inroads into the dysfunctional world of fine art, curating and exhibiting in a vain hope to seem legit and adult.. |
