Comments on: Bizarro vs. Surrealism

By: brain meat

brain meat — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 20:27:19 +0000

Your name was popping up at the world fantasy convention a few weeks ago, so I started checking out your blog and articles. You nailed Breton’s influence on the Paris surrealists. “He was a complete douchebag” should be in textbooks right after “When not starting limp-wristed slap fights and obsessively brushing his hair, Breton spent lazy evenings brooding over the inevitable fall of the Parisienne group into the hands of anyone not named Andre Breton.”

Looking forward to reading more of your stuff.

By: jaimeseibert

jaimeseibert — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 05:07:12 +0000

Cool stuff, keep up the good writing. Visit my site and check out my surrealist style. http://www.jaimeseibert.com

By: TrickyBuddha Studios | Am I a Surrealist?

TrickyBuddha Studios | Am I a Surrealist? — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:28:50 +0000

[...] of it does make sense to me. For example, Carlton Mellick III posts that with classical surrealism, using the practice of automatic writing, we’re left with a [...]

By: nihil

nihil — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:21:09 +0000

touché.

By: carltonmellick

carltonmellick — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:52:20 +0000

If you wake up at the end, then yeah.

By: nihil

nihil — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:47:31 +0000

i don’t know… i’ve dreamed about magical portal pies, purple alien birds hatching in FBI interrogation rooms, freakshow menageries, and having a painful black insect-like snake grafted to the inside of my arm in an old barn… this is “mundane weird?”

By: Jayson

Jayson — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 02:47:56 +0000

Interesting. Here lately, I’ve been asked, ‘what is this film you did, EGG. …just don’t get it’. Lots of things along those lines. It was written by Jeremy Shipp, who titles himself a Bizarro/Dark Fiction author. Bizarro was described to me as the abandonment of conventional logic. To myself, the film (and the script) is weird, illogical, surreal, dark, suspicious and yes…bizarro. So now when people get befuddled or confused, I just tell’em it’s a puzzle. You figure it out.

J. Densman
EGG director/producer

By: carltonmellick

carltonmellick — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 02:43:05 +0000

No problem. Thanks for the question, Rich.

By: rich

rich — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 02:35:13 +0000

I kind of see what you’re saying. For instance, then, people commonly have “weird” dreams of being naked in a crowd, or losing their hair and teeth all at once. Strange to experience in a dream? Yes. But common place because many people have dreams that share certain types of images, like nakedness — making them common place. And then, in lit, there are certain tropes that developed — Borges and certain South Americans took the whole dream-within-a-dream-within-a-dream concept far, but now, since it’s been done so much, it’s not necessarily strange anymore.

Again, carlton, thanks for these blog posts. It certainly helps somebody new to the genre, like myself.

By: carltonmellick

carltonmellick — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:53:54 +0000

Dreams are weird in a mundane kind of way. They’re not weird enough to be interesting. Anything weird but common is not interesting enough to be bizarro…because people read bizarro to experience something completely new and unusual. Commonplace weirdness isn’t worth reading about.