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October 14th, 2013 · 2 Comments
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Captain Cap: The Trade Edition
October 11th, 2013 · 4 Comments
The trade edition of Captain Cap is now available! Alphonse Allais’s hard-drinking, proto-pataphysical antihero, based on his friend Albert Caperon, bullies bartenders, swindles prostitutes, travels the world, and offers such useful inventions as the smell-buoy, the kangacycle, the bacteria motor, and much more. This edition collects the four installments previously published by Black Scat Books, plus eight Captain Cap stories Allais published elsewhere. It’s 370 pages; it was translated by Doug Skinner, who also provided an introduction, notes, and over 50 illustrations. There’s a Cappendix of historical photos and recipes for the Captain’s favorite cocktails. And, for the first time, Caperon himself graces the cover, in Norman Conquest’s elegant design.
You can order a copy through Black Scat Books, or directly from Amazon. Bon voyage, Cap!
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September 30th, 2013 · Comments Off on Index Cards (55)
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Captain Cap, Volume 4
September 23rd, 2013 · 1 Comment
The fourth and final volume of Captain Cap is now available from Black Scat Books. In these sixteen stories, Alphonse Allais’s hard-drinking polymath proposes crocodile bridges, volatile ink, the kangacycle, smell-buoys, and much more. Captain Cap, first published in 1902, and continually popular in France, has previously been translated into Czech, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, but never before into English. Now, with this last volume, every last drop is available to anglophones.
This edition is translated, illustrated, introduced and annotated by Doug Skinner. It has been published by Black Scat in an edition of 125 copies. Set sail with the Captain!
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La Porta Magica di Massimiliano Palombara
September 20th, 2013 · 1 Comment
A curious alchemical portal in Rome.
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Oulipo Pornobongo 2
September 16th, 2013 · 1 Comment
Oh boy! Oulipo Pornobongo 2 is now out, chockablock with smut and recreational linguistics. This one features work by Opal Louis Nations, Farewell Debut, D.S. Macpherson, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Giovanni Zuniga, Derek Pell, Roger Leatherwood, Eckhard Gerdes and others. I contribute a song, an acrostic about mating dachshunds, a translation of an 1885 story by Alphonse Allais, and a comic strip scripted by Derek Pell. It’s available from Black Scat Books.
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It’s Time For a Treat
September 5th, 2013 · 5 Comments
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September 2nd, 2013 · Comments Off on Index Cards (54)
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White Knuckle Sandwich (5)
August 28th, 2013 · 4 Comments
Jennifer Duffy and I collaborated on this drawing for a postcard, for our band White Knuckle Sandwich. I drew the astronauts (partially swiped from an old pulp cover), Saturn, the seltzer, and the uke; Jen supplied the rest, including the spirograph.
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Show Biz
August 27th, 2013 · 5 Comments
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