A Christmas Song – Santa Claws
Posted in Bizarro Artists, Bizarro Books, Random Shit on December 21, 2009 by carltonmellickAndrew Goldfarb, bizarro musician and author of Slub Glub in the Weird World of the Weeping Willows, has a new Christmas song for you. Goldfarb’s pet guinea pig Coco does percussion on the song.
Listen to it here:
Coco:
Santa Claws
More info on Andrew’s bizarro children’s book:
Santa Conquers the Homophobes
Posted in Bizarro Books on December 20, 2009 by carltonmellickThis looks like a book worth checking out:
“Santa Conquers the Homophobes” by Robert Devereaux
I’ve read Robert’s earlier book “Santa Steps Out” which was just brilliant. I’m sure this one is good too. It’s too late to recommend this as a Christmas gift, but maybe next year.
Samurai Hamburglar!
Posted in Bizarro Authors, art on December 10, 2009 by carltonmellickHere is another poster from my book Warrior Wolf Women of the Wasteland:
This one is of the Hamburglar, the evil henchman of Mayor McCheese who happens to be a sadistic badass samurai with the reflexes of a cat. I’m thinking I might have to write another story just about Mayor McCheese and the Hamburgar.
Mayor McCheese of the Post Apocalypse
Posted in Bizarro Books, art on December 9, 2009 by carltonmellickHere is a poster from my book Warrior Wolf Women of the Wasteland:
It is Mayor McCheese, the evil warlord of the wasteland. Perhaps the dumbest villain I have ever come up with. This is a promotional poster. I’m thinking about maybe selling some of these on my site, if there’s interest.
Get 4 bizarro books for the price of 3
Posted in Bizarro Books on December 7, 2009 by carltonmellickI thought some of you might be interested to know that Amazon.com is running a 4-for-3 promotion. Buy four eligible items and get the lowest priced item free. This combined with the free super saver shipping (on orders over $25) saves a lot of money.
Go here for a full list of all Eraserhead Press books available on the 4 for 3 deal:
My books available for the 4 for 3 deal are these:
Sausagey Santa
The Faggiest Vampire
Baby Jesus Butt Plug
The Haunted Vagina
Ultra Fuckers
War Slut
Sea of the Patchwork Cats
Teeth and Tongue Landscape
New Short Story and article on me in The Magazine of Bizarro Fiction
Posted in Bizarro Books with tags Bizarro Fiction, Carlton Mellick on December 4, 2009 by carltonmellickA new story of mine, “Simple Machines,” was published in the new issue of The Magazine of Bizarro Fiction. The story is about a man who discovers one day that the inside of his body is infested with dozens of miniature clones of himself, who happen to control him like a machine.
There is also a big in depth article on me and my writing career, which is by far the best article that has ever been written about me. I also wrote an essay for the regular feature “Bizarro Novels that Never Were” where I talk about my novel “The Cranky Dildo” that I wrote and lost before it could ever be published.
I highly recommend getting this issue of the magazine. It is incredibly good and definitely worth the $6.95 cover price. It also includes a great short novella by Kevin Donihe called “The Traveling Dildo Salesman” that some believe to be his finest work. It’s worth the cover price for this novella alone. Mykle Hansen’s novelette “Blimpman” is also great.
If you haven’t picked up a copy of this magazine before, start with this issue.
Here are the contents:
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Fiction
Morphia by Vincent Sakowski
She can see the future but first she must drown.
The Traveling Dildo Salesman by Kevin L. Donihe
The heartwarming tale of a man that just can’t stop selling dildos.
Fathers and Sons by D. Harlan Wilson
“I think grandpa’s alive again…”
A Better Child by Gina Ranalli
A mother whose baby is literally unraveling.
Blimpman by Mykle Hansen
Can Blimpman save Pleasanton from the menace of Dr. Dickerdunner?
Simple Machines by Carlton Mellick III
What happens when you find out who’s really at the controls in your head?
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Comics
Ogner Stump by Andrew Goldfarb
What sorrow awaits Ogner Stump in this adventure?
Spacefoot and the Vamptorians by Richard Tingley
Coming soon to a theater near you! Maybe not…
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Nonfiction
The Baby Jesus and Drunken Pirates: Author Spotlight on Carlton Mellick III by Jeff Burk
A career overview and analysis of bizarro high priest Carlton Mellick III
How to Give a Rousing Reading by Tom Bradley
You have no excuse to ever be boring.
The Weird, Weird West by Jordan Krall
A guide to Spaghetti Westerns for the Bizarro-minded viewer.
Only the Strange Survive: Ten Years of Eraserhead Press by Jeff Burk
A look back on the sordid, thorny, and inspiring story of Eraserhead Press
Regular Features
A Rant from the Editor
Happy ten year anniversary to Eraserhead Press
Bizarro Book Reviews by Jeff Burk, Cameron Pierce, and Bob Chaplin
Reviews of Cosmetica by Troy Chambers, Market Adjustment by Andersen Prunty, Asphalt Flowerhead by Forrest Armstrong, Squid Pulp Blues by Jordan Krall, Help! A Bear is Eating Me! by Mykle Hansen, Ugly Heaven, Beautiful Hell by Carlton Mellick III and Jeffery Thomas, Not Quite One of the Boys by Vincent W. Sakowski, The Haunted Vagina by Carlton Mellick III, Sick: An Anthology of Illness edited by John Edward Lawson
The Bizarro Books That Never Were: The Cranky Dildo by Carlton Mellick III
The lost book of Carlton Mellick III.
Cover Art by Carlton Mellick III
Interior Art by Chrissy Horchheimer
Editor-In-Chief : Jeff Burk
Get it at: amazon.com
WOLF GIRL ROAD WARRIORS – more illustrations from Warrior Wolf Women
Posted in Bizarro Books on November 25, 2009 by carltonmellickSome more illustrations from Warrior Wolf Woman of the Wasteland.
Available at amazon.com:
Check out other Warrior Wolf Women images here:
http://carltonmellick.com/2009/10/09/more-illustrations-from-warrior-wolf-women-of-the-wasteland/
and here:
http://carltonmellick.com/2009/09/30/illustrations-for-warrior-wolf-women-of-the-wasteland/
Write-ups on the Bizarro Movement
Posted in Bizarro Fiction on November 24, 2009 by carltonmellickSome of these were found online this week, people blogging about Bizarro. Check them out:
From the Ghostwoods blog, there is this:
A STORM IS COMING
Deep in the bowels of the Internet, something is stirring. It’s the red-headed bastard child of Punk, thanks to a wild and filthy night orgying with MTV, William Burroughs, Robert Anton Wilson and Lewis Caroll. As culture has expanded and exploded in the computer age, we’ve become more and more comfortable and familiar with concepts and ideas that used to be niche. Spell-flinging wizards. Vampires. Cthulhu. Giant stompy robots. Aliens cutting ventilation ports in cows. What used to be hardcore geek niche is mainstream now, and the younger you are, the more natural all this stuff is.
At the same time, entertainment has become, well, burstier. MTV blips are the usual example, but in every area, stuff is being served up in smaller and smaller chunks, with brighter lights and louder bells and whistles.
The result is a new wave of absurdity. I’m not going to get all Lit Critic and start talking about Dadism or post-modern playfulness; they’re old boxes, and they’re unhelpful. The movement — and it _is_ a movement, one which is gathering steam — has decided to call itself Bizarro. The only real aim or rule of Bizarro is to be entertaining. It is almost always weird and absurd, frequently straddling lines between fantasy, horror and sci-fi. Their worlds are not predictable, and the narrative structures often lack form.
The Bizarro movement is centred on fiction, but its tendrils are extending out to art, animation, sculpture and music. Despite the lack of previously established norms, Bizarro work is usually easy to follow. It’s a sign of the quality of the pioneers involved that it is still good, because most of the old structures are there because they’re easy tools for creators to use.
Bizarro is not comfortable. Much of it is deliberately provocative, even offensive. It’s certainly unhinged, too. But if the chaotic juxtapositions and genuinely free creativity it can offer are to your tastes, then there’s a very rich vein of material waiting for you.
Bizarro Central is probably your best port of call if you want to know more.
Personally? I think I’m in love…
And on Jeff VanderMeer’s blog, there was a writeup on bizarro (written by Eden Robins), called “Bizarro Fiction: Stout Hearts and Strong Stomachs”
Here’s an excerpt:
At a time when everyone seems to be scrambling to find their place in the publishing world, it seems to me that the bizarro folks have got the right idea — do what you love, use what you have, and have a good time doing it. Because really, isn’t that what we all should be doing?
Eraserhead Press was also mentioned in this article: Independent Publishers Who Are Reinventing The Future
